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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: halma on February 16, 2017, 06:45:07 PM

Title: why TC has no "live" remove extension system
Post by: halma on February 16, 2017, 06:45:07 PM

Hi,

i am asking myself, why TC has no "live" removing extension function?
What i exactly mean is, in mostly every linux distro there is an package management system to install and remove packages, like rpm/apt/pkg etc..., why TC has not such like a similiar system without rebooting TC to remove extensions, tce-load is nice but not able to remove without rebooting, or i do not see such a feature on TC to stay on TC while extension is succelfully removed without rebooting?

Halma

Title: Re: why TC has no "live" remove extension system
Post by: polikuo on February 16, 2017, 10:40:28 PM

Quote from: Juanito on December 08, 2013, 08:17:01 AM

There is no official "tce-unload" command because it would likely leave your system unstable due to cross dependencies between different extensions.

The memory usage of this kind of extension is very low.

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,16345 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,16345)

It's very difficult to remove a extension without rebooting.
Nevertheless, there's a unofficial script just for that.
Here's the unofficial tce-unload script.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=5012.0 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=5012.0)

Title: Re: why TC has no "live" remove extension system
Post by: mocore on February 18, 2017, 01:00:53 AM

No doubt this may be a bit OT

however if you have an intrest in add/removing things from your envroment
the `nix package manager` can do this without rebooting and without
'leaveing your system unstable due to cross dependencies between different extensions.'