On Monday 24 January 2005 21:06, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Well if it can be easily solved how come we still have this problem > > ? There are several packages that use the soname approach in FC and > > they are the ones that are a PITA to cleanup now and then > > I did not know, is it possible to have a tool find the rpms that no > rpms depend on, and ask to remove them ? For this task, Debian has > something called deborphan (which might do more than that) and > Mandrake has "urpm-find-leaves" IIRC. Maybe that could be a start. It'll be slow to materialize. Key factor is that this is usually a result of: 1. Using third party repositories. 2. Doing dist upgrades. Neither of which finds amicable or fruitful discussion. Bad-blood carryover from earlier days. -- -jeff
