RPM roadmapping

Topher javert42 at cs.byu.edu
Fri Jul 27 18:42:06 UTC 2007


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Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> If I had any ability to hack on rpm.....
> Is there a way to make the rpmdb smart enough to make auto-removal of
> package dependencies happen when all packages using that dep were
> explicitly installed are no longer on the system.
> 

Couldn't this been done with reference counting, like is done with
garbage collection?  It seems to me to be applicable, proven, and simple.


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