How to find out whether a package is used

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	Hi,
is there a way to figure out whether a package is used by any user? I
know with mirrors it's basically impossible to know whether it had been
downloaded at all, but I do not know whether there can be involved
other techniques to figure it out, batter than dropping a package and
wait whether anyone will cry it's missing.

My idea is to remove the evolution-mapi package. It is kept alive
upstream for users connecting to very old Microsoft Exchange servers in
the Evolution. A more modern replacement is evolution-ews, which works
with Exchange 2007 servers and newer (it is the version the Microsoft
introduced the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol, thus 15 years
ago).

The evolution-mapi depends on the openchange package, which has (for
several years) no upstream. According to `dnf repoquery --whatrequires
libmapi-openchange.so* --alldeps` only evolution-mapi requires it, thus
removing the evolution-mapi can also remove the openchange package,
but I'd like to not cause any regression to anybody using the
evolution-mapi, hence I'd like to know whether it's used at all or not.
For the completeness, the openchange package depend son samba and
whenever samba is updated (and its soname versions), the openchange and
evolution-mapi needs to be rebuilt against it.

	Thanks and bye,
	Milan
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