RFC: Soname in rpm name

Mon Jan 24 13:26:11 UTC 2005

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Well if it can be easily solved how come we still have this problem ?
>> There are several packages that use the soname approach in FC and they
>> are the ones that are a PITA to cleanup now and then
>
> I did not know, is it possible to have a tool find the rpms that no rpms
> depend on, and ask to remove them ? For this task, Debian has something
> called deborphan (which might do more than that) and Mandrake has
> "urpm-find-leaves" IIRC. Maybe that could be a start.

Check out this for example:
http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2003-March/003391.html

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