John Wendel wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:Jeff Vian wrote:On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:32 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:On Monday 06 November 2006 13:00, Aaron Konstam wrote:This is standard behaviour in our least-favourite OS. It could be said that you are asking for it to be uninstalled if you uncheck it.On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:43 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:The one time I tried pirut I found that unchecking a line meant in-factthat the package/group was to be removed. I have not used it since.I agree with your experience. I think Rahul is wrong in this case.Exactly, which is why pirut is on my "do not use" list.Pirut has similar behavior as Yumex or Synaptic for example. Unselecting a package in the package list clearly means remove the software in all these package managers.RahulActually, in Synaptic, unselecting a package means right click, navigate a menu, see a pop-up window telling you what is going to be uninstalled, and click OK or cancel. A far cry from "unchecking a line". It isn't something you can do by accident.
Pirut prompts with the complete list of dependencies before uninstallation too. That prompt had a timeout which is removed in the latest update. If you unselect a package and accept a dialog box for confirmation, then your packages are going to get removed. More hand holding is unnecessary IMO.
Rahul
