[NEW IDEA] Automatic removal of dependencies

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 15:12:05 UTC 2006


On 4/22/06, Ola Thoresen <redhat at olen.net> wrote:
> It will simply list all packages where no files have been accessed the
> last 6 months.  I believe it has been posted here before (or I might
> have picked it up somewhere else), but anyway something like this would
> probably more helpful than only looking at the dependencies if one is
> trying to determine what packages can safely be removed.

doesn't prelink operation on libraries nullify much of the value of
such a script? If prelink operation changes the access time, you'll
basically get false positives for every library prelink touches.

-jef




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