Mark Rosenstand <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 06:30 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > 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? > The Debian tool assumes that its users are capable of brain activity. Riiight... > I > don't know if this is a problem in the Fedora case. You haven't met many end users, have you? [In any case, a tool like this is completely useless if it /forces/ the user to know about the stuff they have installed... that's 1284 packages currently here, I sure don't know what each one of them does. I'd be real pressed to name more than a hundred. Forget about dependencies...] > Anyway, it does have > a couple of more options than Y/n, one of them being 'i' which prints > the description of the package, so it's easy to get a pretty good clue > if you're uncertain whether you need the package. > Of course this is where the "explicitly installed" attribute is useful. > I assume glibc, grub, udev etc. are all explicitly installed by > anaconda. And why should one not be able to also look at "explicitly installed" stuff? Each Linux user goes through the "a distribution a week" phase, the next one is usually the "install everything" that makes for regular flamewars here, spiced up with "... what I can put my hands on"... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
