On Jan 24, 2005, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > Aurelien Bompard <gauret@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I did not know, is it possible to have a tool find the rpms that no rpms >> depend on, and ask to remove them ? > The problem with this is that RPM does not indicate whether a package has > "end user value" (a command line or GUI program, or a daemon), or is just > a support library needed by said end user programs, which can be removed > if not needed by anyone. Could we perhaps add such a flag to the rpm database? Then the installer and the various other package installation front-ends could mark user- (or comps-)requested packages as having end user value, and everything else brought in to satisfy dependencies such that it is (or can be) removed as soon as no dependencies remain. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
