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Reinout van Rees wrote: > Debian/ubuntu has a mechanism to clean up packages that were once > installed to satisfy dependencies but that aren't needed anymore. > > The handiest course of action is probably looking up how they do it. > (/me doesn't know now it works internally, btw) Apt has a file, /var/lib/apt/extended_states, which stores an "Auto-Installed" flag with same semantics as the REQUESTED flag (inverted). Though there are issues with the flag not being set correctly for base-system packages, and not all tools take advantage of the flag, the stored metadata is the same. Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLbCms1j/fhc23WEARApmwAJ41SEmj7suUyLEYLnZaCHv/4rsrxACgh8HW UqGoxwfCGzXUardtOJL5xsA= =tAzV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
