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tcll

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Registered: 2026-01-25

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TazPkg improvements

I highly recommend making tazpkg capable of this as I've had to restore my system numerous times from the lack of this

Notice in the attachment how pacman doesn't continue if it'll break the listed deps ([c]required by ________[/c])

tazpkg on the other hand doesn't tell you of any broken deps until after you remove

(even more annoying, there's a timeout which cancels the rest of the operation, so you don't even know everything broken if you're verifying something)

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tcll

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Registered: 2026-01-25

Posts: 31

Re: TazPkg improvements

Also notice how I can specify multiple packages for removal

That's another improvement I'd like to suggest as well

shann

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Registered: 2011-04-01

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Re: TazPkg improvements

All on SliTaz follow Keep it simple philosophy, not all feature implemented.

Yes good suggest, multiple packages installation/removal not implemented, think need to add it on my todo.

I always implement those features in tazpkg on '6.0' :

- check if tazpkg need to be upgrade before install package or upgrade all packages

- fetch all packages in one transaction before install them instead fetch/install each sequentially

tcll

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Registered: 2026-01-25

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Re: TazPkg improvements

HAH, dw, I won't suggest anything that's too overly complicated

All you gotta do is scan the installed dependencies

which you already have implemented on a similar level to pacman in [c]/var/lib/tazpkg/installed/<package>/recipt[/c] -> [c]DEPENDS=""[/c]

for comparison, pacman uses [c]/var/lib/pacman/local/libtasn1-4.18.0-1/desc[/c] -> [c]%DEPENDS%\nglibc\n[/c] to display those errors if I were to remove glibc

it just queries everything before actually running

not that hard to implement

(if you're curious, I'm sort of building my own package manager that builds Appimages out of other package manager implementations, and everything except dpkg is simple to follow (heck it can even downlo0ad from other repo archives), unless you count the stuff like snap or flatpak, but like everything else I'm building, it's still a WIP project)