Re: "Unneeded" packages being installed
On Thursday 21 May 2009, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> And just in case, with a daily-built Debian image, the list of libs
> without any packages depending on them (packages from a minimal Debian
> install) is:
For daily built images at the current stage of the release cycle this
really isn't very interesting. It's much more important that such things
get cleaned up in the last few months before a new stable release, when
libraries are frozen (at least for ABI changes).
Example:
> libdb4.6
This one had to be prio Important up to the time iproute was updated to
libdb4.7. This older version of the lib will disappear automatically when
all remaining packages that depend on it have also been updated to 4.7.
The same is probably true for some of the others.
Which is exactly why this is not interesting for daily builds: there is
simply too much flux with ABI changes in libs. It would be way too much
work for essentially no gain to try to keep up with that at this point.
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