Call for comments - pkg_trans

[kimelto]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Marcin Wisnicki
<mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Looking at your use cases I think what you are proposing is overkill.
>
> * Install some large group of packages, like KDE or GNOME. Don't like it,
> want to delete all packages installed during the operation.
>
> This could be achieved by tracking which ports were installed explicitly
> by user. I.e. when I type:
>  (cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2; make install)
> or
>  pkg_add -r gnome2
>
> It will install gnome2 along with it's dependencies but in some way mark
> gnome2 package as installed by user, say, by creating /var/db/pkg/
> gnome2-2.22/+USER_INSTALLED or even easier, by maintaing some special
> unremovable dummy package that would depend on all packages installed
> explicitly.

In the pkg_improved project
<http://wiki.freebsd.org/AndersNore/pkg_improved>, Anders plan to add
some new fields. Maybe he could add the "USER_INSTALLED" too :)

>
> Then when you decide you want to get rid of gnome something like this
> could be implemented:
>
>  pkg_deinstall -Ru gnome2-2.22
>
> where option 'R' (already exists in pkg_deinstall but could be added to
> pkg_delete) means "Deinstall all those packages required by the given
> packages as well." and option 'u' would be something like "keep packages
> installed explicitly".
>
> I think similar solution is/was used in Gentoo.
>

I like this way sooooo much !

IMHO, it is the occasion to add these features in the userland, and by
the way rewrite the pkg_tools according to these ideas :

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-ports-pkgtools /
http://wiki.freebsd.org/libpkg
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-ports-upgrade

Regards,
Julien