[csw-users] update - removal before dependency check?

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On 10/8/07, Quayle, Bill (ETS) <Bill.Quayle at cmegroup.com> wrote:
> Please excuse me if this has been discussed in the past or this is not the
> correct forum for this topic.
>
> It was noted by an admin doing an update of openssh that the update removed
> the package, and then checked for dependencies of the new package.  Is it
> possible to check dependencies before the removal of the package being
> updated?  If the user doesn't want to update dependencies they can then bail
> out and still be left with things untouched and functional.

Today the dependency checking is not done by pkg-get itself but by
pkgadd so it's not possible but pkg-get is right now undergoing a
redesign that will bring this functionality to you (i.e. see all
dependencies before you start the actual work).

-- 
/peter