On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Carl Meyer <c...@dirtcircle.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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
FYI we agreed with Carl on IRC that he would work on a diff for the REQUESTED section, to build a small Rationale chapter. So the need becomes more obvious from Distutils PoV Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
