On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:44 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:23 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:19:16 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > > > Does that mean mathml-fonts will get automatically removed out from > > > under me? > > > > It may, which is one of the problems with this approach. > > Why do people feel the need to argue about problems that were solved > years ago? aptitude already provides a very nice interface for this. Its > entirely transparent, packages that are flagged auto installed have an > "A" flag to the left. This flag can be toggled with a single keystroke. > And to top it all off, aptitude gives you a very nice summary of exactly > everything its going to do any why before it does it. You can even > modify package flags and status right there on the preview page: That assumes that the end user knows what a package is and what it does. Say I had no clue that mathml-fonts were needed to properly view the blog of my Physics professor. I might not even know what mathml is. It just works because something else pulled them in as a dependency. Now I remove abiword, and the next time I visit his blog, it does not properly display, and I'm clueless as to why. I think that automatic dependency removal solves a problem that no longer exists when 160 GB hard drives are dirt cheap. The only benefit I see is that with less packages, less bandwidth is needed to keep a system up to date with patches. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
