rpmreaper

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:28 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:51:09AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I've put together a small ncurses application for removing unnecessary
> > > packages and their dependencies from the system.
> > 
> > out of curiosity: any reason you did this in c directly to rpmlib rather
> > than just using the routines that already exist in python and yum's
> > libraries?
> 
> I prefer C for this kind of applications and the code for reading
> rpmdb is quite simple, so using the libraries probably wouldn't help
> much.

What is 'this kind of application'?

-sv