> Not the same pinning. I'm talking about adding a bit that would tell > whether a particular package was requested by the user or brought in > just to satisfy a dependency of another package. Packages of the > latter group that no longer have any dependency in the database may be > garbage collected. Packages of the former group shouldn't. > Right but the problem is this. sometimes, when I know a dep a package needs i'll request it too. so instead of: yum install rdiff-backup I'll run: yum install rdiff-backup librsync So, I've requested it - but only b/c I know it's a dep. -sv
