On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
It really isn't needed to do it automatically. Debian have a package called debfoster (at least they had in 2002), which checks the interdependencies of all your packages and for then asks whether you want to remove each package that aren't needed by any others, e.g.: Package A keeps these packages installed: G, K, O, R Do you wish to keep package A? [Y/n] This has the obvious advantage that you don't have to add yet a piece of info to the ever-bloated rpm database. Gentoo also do it. IIRC it has a command which lists all packages that were not installed explicitly and which no other package depends upon (which is a nice, logical list), but then they have to ruin an otherwise nice feature by automatically removing all said packages after 10 seconds if not interrupted.
Checking the dependencies is the easy part. What gets less trivial is things like this:
[pmatilai@cs181072240 ~]$ rpm -e --test grub [pmatilai@cs181072240 ~]$ Oops, nothing needs grub, so it can be removed safely, right? - Panu - -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
