On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:33:15PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:21:13 +0100, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Already posted in different siblings of this thread and implemented at > > ATrpms. Auto-expiring packages that should be disposed of if there is > > no dependency on them should simply provide a fake dependency to hook > > a garbage collector to. > > no.. you missed my point... expiring because nothing depends on them > is NOT what im talking about. I'm talking about expiring a package > because the package author is no longer maintaining that version of > the library regardless of whether an externally built application from > somewhere else are still using that version of the library. If i > haven't made my point clear enough, I apologize. Your leaf detection > mechanism is not going to address this issue. OK, neither will the soname-in-the-rpmname address this in any way, positive or negative, and as said the issue you raise is far more involved and w/o any good solution. The leaf detection would circumstantially help here, but that wouldn't be the main focus. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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