How to submit refactorings (or: Removing PWS)

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Fri Nov 15 00:00:34 UTC 2002


On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:

> My point there was that the removals should be separate in time from the
> point where the package is made removable.
>
> Assuming we eventually want the image to be actually smaller, we'll need
> to remove them in updates at some point, no? (after adequate warning,
> and the remove can be confitional on the users not having installed the
> package explicitly from SM, and so forth).
>
> But I see not rush - the important thing is to make things cleanly
> remov*able*, as outlined.
>
> Right?

Yes, and in fact, once the packages are clearly delineated in the image
(ie, through PackageInfo's naming conventions) a removal script probably
isn't even necessary - just tell DVS to unload the package (or at least
get it to generate the removal script for you).

Avi




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