On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:30:47AM +0200, Fr�d�ric Crozat wrote: > > We CAN't obsolete libraries, just to remove them.. This would mean a new > library would provide binary compatibility with old one and it is not the > case...
Of course. I do understand this and I understand exactly why I have the old libs, I am just wondering if it's not something that should be handled by Mandrake Linux, in some way or another. A lib with no dependencies in the RPM database really is of no use on the system. How about a tool to identify just libs that have no dependencies. I think there was a "leaf-mode" option to urpmi (IIRC) to do something like this but I found that it identified far more that packages that truely were not dependencies of something else. I think it was because they were implicit rather than explicit dependencies. I think the leaf-mode thing depends on package a declaring with a Requires: package b in order for the leaf-mode thing to work. ISTR posting a plea that all packages have full explicit dependencies when I found this out. Of course, my mind could be just foggy due to it being 4:48am. :-) b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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