RFR: jmod remove

[David Holmes]

Hi Chris,

Does this remove native libs and native commands along with any other 
installed "resource" files?

Thanks,
David

On 19/04/2012 6:47 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> I heard the following expression a few times, 'rm -rf has reached the
> limit of its usefulness'! So it's about time we had a 'jmod remove'.
>
> The webrev is based upon Mandy's alias support patch [1]. I figured it
> would most likely be going in after the alias support.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/jigsaw/jmodrm.02/webrev/
>
> Essentially, you can remove any module not required by a configuration.
> Fails if you try to remove a module which will break a configuration,
> unless you specify --force, or remove both the root module along with
> the dependent module.
>
> I added a comment about the parent/child relationship. That is, a module
> library has no notion of its children so we could remove a module in a
> parent library that is not part of any configuration in that library,
> but may be part of a configuration in a child library. I think this is
> fine for now, but we may have to revisit the parent/child relationship
> in the future ( beyond the scope of jmod remove ).
>
> -Chris.
>
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2012-April/002351.html