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| author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-07-08 09:40:46 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-08-10 23:18:04 +0200 |
| commit | e7d4e0cf4f6d79810e4b4e7de505729e759213dd (patch) | |
| tree | ba19ea1f8d96b71f20a16e07ec082332a6196002 /doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt | |
| parent | b820fd59c4fe6e3581901eee648e88209be56137 (diff) | |
select remove/purge packages early on for dpkg
Telling dpkg early on that we are going to remove these packages later
helps it with auto-deconfiguration decisions and its another area where
a planner can ignore the nitty gritty details and let dpkg decide the
course of action if there are no special requirements.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt b/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt index 44fa8ff53..4bad9da0a 100644 --- a/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt +++ b/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt @@ -248,7 +248,9 @@ before it was unpacked, dependency relations must be satisfied, …), but they don't need to be complete: A planner can and should expect that any package which wasn't explicitly configured will be configured at the end automatically. That also means through that a planner is not allowed to -produce a solution in which a package remains unconfigured. +produce a solution in which a package remains unconfigured. Also, +packages which are requested to be removed will be automatically removed +at the end if not marked for removal explicitly earlier. In terms of expressivity, all stanzas can carry one single field each, as APT-IDs are enough to pinpoint packages to be installed/removed. |