[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57522] "pkg unload" does not care for dependencies

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #57522 (project octave):

On the main issue of the report: I am for issuing a warning and just unloading
the selected package (third form the last item in Mike's list)

But I am not contributing to the discussion on how to handle the behavior of
unload, but to the need to store full dependency graph for each package.

I have created a set of functions[1] that can be integrated into pkg, or
Andrew's pkj to update dependency information at install time. This info could
also be collected as part of the releasing mechanism.
Once we have this info in the packages db file it is a matte rof choosing how
to traverse it.
Currently the files gets the info from installed packages, but I will extend
it to get the info from a url instead.

So, maybe it is worth adding a true feature request with "pkg build dependency
dag" or something on those lines.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/kakila/dependencydag

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