Re: Debian-Alpha port ideas...please read (long)
On 30 Oct 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I can see that. One way to get rid of the dummy packages is to introduce
> a new field into dpkg, that tells dpkg to mark the package for deletion
> if nothing dpends on it anymore. That is actually very useful for all
> architectures, on my i586 I have a lot of packages providing some shared
> library hanging around which aren't used by any package anymore..
Good point and a great idea. I have the same problem and, short of
trying to remove every package to see if it's depended on, it can be a
pain to find out if a package is really needed. Of course, this kind of a
field should probably only be allowed on libs or devel packages....
Just a weird parallel-universe thought but, doesn't Windows suffer from a
similar problem with shared libs that are just hanging around taking up
space when they're not needed???? Geez, kinda makes you wanna hide,
doesn't it :P This kind of a field would go a long way towards
eliminating the same type of problems experienced under that OS.
Chris
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