RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Farkas Levente]

seth vidal wrote:
>>Not the same pinning.  I'm talking about adding a bit that would tell
>>whether a particular package was requested by the user or brought in
>>just to satisfy a dependency of another package.  Packages of the
>>latter group that no longer have any dependency in the database may be
>>garbage collected.  Packages of the former group shouldn't.
>>
> 
> 
> Right but the problem is this.
> 
> sometimes, when I know a dep a package needs i'll request it too.
> 
> so instead of:
>  yum install rdiff-backup
> 
> I'll run:
>  yum install rdiff-backup librsync
> 
> So, I've requested it - but only b/c I know it's a dep.

why did you do so? if anyone you should know that yum will intall it 
too. is it faster? or? is there _any_ reason for this???

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