[NEW IDEA] Automatic removal of dependencies

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Fri Apr 28 00:39:15 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 12:46 -0600, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> All,
> 
> Here are a couple of suggestions of how add auto-no-longer-used-dependency 
> removal to yum.
> 
> 1.  Enhance RPM to track a new flag from each package to indicate whether or 
> not it was installed auto-selected-for-dependency.

How do you plan on discovering this data?  During installation,
basically everything is the latter, or equivalent, except for packages
selected individually in a ks.cfg .

-- 
  Peter




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