Edward S. Marshall wrote: >On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 00:50 +0100, Leon wrote: > > >>Basically they want to divide packages (of course installed by package >>manager; those installed using source, the user has to track >>themselves) into two groups: one is installed by the user (explicitly >>'yum install') and the other is those required to satisfy the >>dependence. >> >> > >See Gentoo's "emerge depclean"; portage flags whether the package was >installed explicitly or via a dependancy, and depclean allows you to >remove any packages not explicitly installed which aren't depended on by >anything. Howeve,r also see how many problems they've had with it; it >can be a very easy way to make a system unbootable. > >It does, however, have a nugget of a good idea embedded in it (which Jef >touched on): making it easier for administrators to manage "leaf node" >packages. Some use cases I've bumped into: > >- Administrator removes a package, and wants to know what other packages >depended on it (and only it), so they can see good candidates for >removal. > > You can do that quite simply with rpm and dpkg currently. See: 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
