Naively, I would think that you could mark individual packages as
explicitly installed or not in the rpmdb. So tools which interact
with the db could set that flag accordingly and such a demarcation
could be queried or used in transactions.
There's a logic problem here -- how do you determine which packages
are marked which way on a fresh install? Marking them all as explicit
means you rarely remove anything. Marking them all implicit means the
first time you remove anything it destroys your system. There's no
obvious determining factor to use as middle ground, at least to me.
Well, the basic installs are all supposed to propose an initial set of
selected services (a kernel, a basic running environment, OpenOffice,
editors, at least one desktop, a mailer, a browser, ....). The packages
corresponding to these services should be marked as explicit and all the
others implicit.
If this is difficult to achieve, then mark everything as explicit at
install time and this scheme will work essentially for user added
packages and their dependencies...
This still has quite some value. Believe me, the number of packages
installed just to solve dependencies is quite high once the user start
to ask for some addons.
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