On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:48:53 +0200, Brian J. Murrell wrote : > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:30:47AM +0200, Fr=E9d=E9ric Crozat wrote: >>=20 >> 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. :-)
If I remember correctly, Fran�ois has planned to do something like that for Mdk 9.0 -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
