when running ‘apk del pkg’ and pkg is a dependency for other packages, apk should print a warning with full list of packages that needs it, and then only remove it from world, rather than just exit with error.

We could have ‘apk del -r’ to delete the reverse dependencies recursively (current behaviour) and maybe -i to interactively ask for confirmation.

This would be more compatible with apk-tools-0.15.

(from redmine: issue id 47, created on 2009-06-22, closed on 2009-08-19)

• Relations:
  • relates #69 (closed)
• Changesets:
  • Revision 6f8526da by Timo Teräs on 2009-08-04T07:57:33Z:

del: add '-r' to remove top-level dependencies recursively

and by default just update the world, and dump a lost of packages
that are not removed. fixes #47.