Jesse Keating wrote: >On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:41 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > > >>I can confirm this, however I wonder why this sort of thing even happens >>- it would make sense to me if a package which nothing depended on would >>get accidently removed, but I would think that the buildsystem would >>throw up warnings when you remove something that is needed. >> >> >> > >The functionality of hotplug is no longer needed. However some packages >were compiled against it in the past. Currently our internal tool for >removing a package from a distro does not do a depcheck to see if >anything requires it. It just isn't that smart. Good news though, >we're rewriting these tools so that the next gen could be this smart. >(; > > In case anyone finds this useful I wrote a simple reverse dependency checker the other say: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/whatrequires Pádraig. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
