On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:05:29PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > 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. ATrpms has started marking library only packages with Provides: shared-library-package so these packages can be identifies with rpm --whatprovides shared-library-package and be probed for garbage collection. I.e. there is no need to extend rpm, you have everything already in place. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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