[packagekit] Keep trace of dilectly installed packages

Mounir Lamouri mounir.lamouri at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 06:42:52 PDT 2009


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Mounir Lamouri<mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Richard Hughes wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mounir Lamouri<mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> So, get-depends is essentialy to _see_ depends before installing them...
>>> Exactly, to give the user a chance to agree/disagree to the larger package set.
>> So what is the use cases of get_depends with and without recursive ?
> 
> With recursive allows you to say "what depends on this, including deps
> of deps" and without allows you to see what has a 1st level
> dependency, i.e. what depends on the package, but not deps of the
> second package.

Sorry, I must be not clear enough. My question was not about what recursive does
but when recursive=True is used and when recursived=False is used. As
get-depends is for information, I can't see when recursived=True is necessary.

Mounir


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