[packagekit] remove-packages and allow_deps / autoremove

[Richard Hughes]

2009/7/21 Mounir Lamouri <mounir.lamouri at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Ohh, sorry. gnome-packagekit will only set remove_requires when the
user has agreed to the deps list
(http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-remove-confirm.png) and any of the
simpler tools just set this to false. I'm not completely sure what the
issue is with gentoo specifically.

Richard.