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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. |