RFC: Soname in rpm name
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jan 25 13:26:10 UTC 2005
> Not the same pinning. I'm talking about adding a bit that would tell
> whether a particular package was requested by the user or brought in
> just to satisfy a dependency of another package. Packages of the
> latter group that no longer have any dependency in the database may be
> garbage collected. Packages of the former group shouldn't.
>
Right but the problem is this.
sometimes, when I know a dep a package needs i'll request it too.
so instead of:
yum install rdiff-backup
I'll run:
yum install rdiff-backup librsync
So, I've requested it - but only b/c I know it's a dep.
-sv
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