RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Jeff Johnson]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:05:29PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
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>>On Jan 24, 2005, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora-devel at camperquake.de> wrote:
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>>>Hi.
>>>Aurelien Bompard <gauret at free.fr> wrote:
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>>>>I did not know, is it possible to have a tool find the rpms that no rpms
>>>>depend on, and ask to remove them ?
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>>>The problem with this is that RPM does not indicate whether a package has
>>>"end user value" (a command line or GUI program, or a daemon), or is just
>>>a support library needed by said end user programs, which can be removed
>>>if not needed by anyone.
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>>Could we perhaps add such a flag to the rpm database?  Then the
>>installer and the various other package installation front-ends could
>>mark user- (or comps-)requested packages as having end user value, and
>>everything else brought in to satisfy dependencies such that it is (or
>>can be) removed as soon as no dependencies remain.
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>ATrpms has started marking library only packages with
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>		Provides: shared-library-package
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>so these packages can be identifies with
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>		rpm --whatprovides shared-library-package
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>and be probed for garbage collection.
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>I.e. there is no need to extend rpm, you have everything already in
>place.
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And there's no need for the *.spec churn and the marker in dependencies:

    rpm -qa 'classdict=*shared object*'

73 de Jeff