Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> I'm not trying to solve the 'install-less' workflow; the benefit from
>> that is IMO considerably less than the workflow *I* have, which I
>> illustrated above. (In fact, the only benefit at that point is
>> dependency marking. File tracking is irrelevant, and if you haven't
>> installed, you aren't providing anything, so you have only one of the
>> three benefits to rpm installs.)
>
> Exactly!  Which is why your solution isn't really an answer for pruning
> leaf packages.

Sure it is :-). It just only helps if you "install" the stuff that needs 
whatever packages would otherwise get pruned ;-).

Although that's somewhat beside the point, since I did rather try to 
drag the thread off on a (related) tangent.

However, it doesn't address -devel packages; for that I think you would 
need some form of SRPM (and you would absolutely want those to be 
user-owned, so we've still got the problem of a "system"/root rpm db and 
one or more user rpm db's). There's overlap...

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