On Jan 24, 2005, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora-devel(a)camperquake.de> wrote:
Hi.
Aurelien Bompard <gauret(a)free.fr> wrote:
> I did not know, is it possible to have a tool find the rpms that
no rpms
> depend on, and ask to remove them ?
The problem with this is that RPM does not indicate whether a package
has
"end user value" (a command line or GUI program, or a daemon), or is just
a support library needed by said end user programs, which can be removed
if not needed by anyone.
Could we perhaps add such a flag to the rpm database? Then the
installer and the various other package installation front-ends could
mark user- (or comps-)requested packages as having end user value, and
everything else brought in to satisfy dependencies such that it is (or
can be) removed as soon as no dependencies remain.
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