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`pkg unload' with dependencies


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: `pkg unload' with dependencies
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:25:23 -0500

On  4-Jan-2010, Muhali wrote:

| If package foo depends on package goo
| 
| `pkg load foo' will also load package goo. But
| 
| `pkg unload goo' will not unload foo, nor give any warning. This behavior is
| misleading.

I would expect loading a package to also load required dependencies.
But I would not expect unloading to unload dependencies since other
packages might also depend on them.

I think that is normal behavior for a package system.

jwe


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