Thanks for the reply.

I went ahead and grabbed a plain 3.5 image and proceeded to create a 
ComancheNG image to learn, experiment and play with. Hard disk space is 
more plentiful than time or expertise. :)

I do think that this will be an important thing to tackle in a 3.6+ 
image. Possibly after the image gets more modular/packagized this will 
be easier. As we move more into the OSEnvironment realm this will be 
very desirable.

Jimmie Houchin


goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin at texoma.net> wrote:
> 
>>I want to play with ComancheNG.
>>Stephen mentioned needing to uninstall or not have Comanche installed 
>>for ComancheNG to work.
>>
>>I have Comanche installed in my current image and would like to 
>>uninstall it. Is that currently possible? Or do I need to open up a new 
>>image to work with?
> 
> 
> Currently it is not possible to uninstall packages *in general*.
> 
> Comanche in particular may of course be simple to purge - Look in its
> changeset and see what it contains. It is probably just a bunch of
> classes and a heap of added loose methods. Just be careful to check if
> some of them are in fact *modified* methods.
> 
> In the future *uninstall* may turn out possible for DVS packages - I
> know Avi has thought about it at least once.
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
> PS. To tell your map that you have uninstalled a particular package you
> would need to... hey, wait a minute - oops. There is no protocol for
> that. ;-) How embarassing. You will just need to add a method for that -
> SMSquakMap simply has a Dictionary called installedPackages to keep
> track of them. You need to clear out the proper key in there. You could
> do it by hand of course using an inspector/explorer on "SMSqueakMap
> default". And... to make it proper the method that does this should
> "record" it in the changes file but whatever - you don't need to care
> about that I think. That is just to ensure that "recovered" images have
> a proper chance of having the correct "notion" of what packages are
> installed.