Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip]
(aside) There's the further issue of attaching dependencies to files. Consider: Files, not packages, have dependencies. rpm-4.2 reattaches Elf dependencies to files. Not yet perl and other interpreteres, basically because I have live with a deficient but well-defined API to slowly decaying helpers that do not supply sufficient information (yet) to attempt attaching dependencies like, say, "perl(Some::Win32:Module)" to the script(s) that actually have the dependency.
Just as theoretical aside to your aside...
Following this where the logic leads; you could (again, in theory) wind up with a software repository (like yum/apt repositories) with full and complete file-level dependencies. "packages" would then be a requirement for a specific set of files. But what I think would be more interesting is for the cruft-reduction and LiveCD possibilities. You could specify exactly what you wanted to be able to run on the final system, and could eliminate every single file not required for that system.
Ah well, pipe dreams. :)
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