Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 15, 2005, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <437A2375.7020609@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0511150919l48786dcam6fda56bc9d3a9fa0@mail.gmail.com>

Josh Boyer wrote:

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> On 11/15/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
>>Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>>>What about "yum remove git" ?  I don't think that will work quite so
>>>well.  The "git" package will be removed just fine since nothing
>>>depends on it, but git-<foo> will still remain.  Maybe not that big of
>>>a deal, but it might not be obvious to some.
>>
>>True.  If you have a solution to that, I'd love to hear it.  Note that
>>having the core package depend on everything else is not acceptable.
> 
> 
> %preun section that does rpm -e of the packages it brings in.  But
> that is a hack that would cause some to become violently ill.  Perhaps
> it's an issue not worth worrying about.
>

Less puky while bringing some obviousity:

%preun echo "To get rid of git completely, yada yada (real instructions)."

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