X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/0b45b6e5de1ba4224ced67a9952e009d0f4139a0..dd47e21814291e965be6da73331f28dc695ce489:/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt diff --git a/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt b/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt index 44fa8ff53..4bad9da0a 100644 --- a/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt +++ b/doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.txt @@ -248,7 +248,9 @@ before it was unpacked, dependency relations must be satisfied, …), but they don't need to be complete: A planner can and should expect that any package which wasn't explicitly configured will be configured at the end automatically. That also means through that a planner is not allowed to -produce a solution in which a package remains unconfigured. +produce a solution in which a package remains unconfigured. Also, +packages which are requested to be removed will be automatically removed +at the end if not marked for removal explicitly earlier. In terms of expressivity, all stanzas can carry one single field each, as APT-IDs are enough to pinpoint packages to be installed/removed.