Re: `pkg unload' with dependencies

[Carlo de Falco]

On 5 Jan 2010, at 08:25, John W. Eaton wrote:

> 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.

but, in the notation used by the OP, unloading package "goo" that was  
loaded because "foo" depends on it
should at least raise a warning saying that "foo" might not work  
properly anymore...
I'd say this is a bug.

> jwe
c.