[packagekit] remove-packages and allow_deps / autoremove

[Mounir Lamouri]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Mounir Lamouri <mounir.lamouri at gmail.com>:
>> I will have to see if it's a good idea on Gentoo. I'm not sure and I
>> should get confirmation. In this situation, if GetDepends is shown, it
>> will be confusing because the listed packages will not be removed. If
>> confirmed (will get the confirmation in a few hours), there would be
>> way to prevent the message ?
>
> I think it would be bad for gentoo to support autoremove; I mean,
> gentoo is a source based distro and so it's not an unreasonable
> assumption that people may be compiling stuff from source using
> libraries, without using portage.

I agree for autoremove. I never think about manage it.
I was talking about remove requires.

>> Daniel, I suppose if there is an option to enable autoremove, it's
>> because it's working. The idea of this message it to show the message
>> when autoremove is enabled and the backend do not implement an
>> autoremove feature.
>
> ... I think we only want the message if it's set true, not unconditionally.

We agree.