Re: Finding unused Packages

[Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky.perez@teknoland.com>]

>>>>> "Antti-Juhani" == Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> writes:

Antti-Juhani> However, adding a new reference-count field to the
Antti-Juhani> status file requires changes to apt and dpkg.  A garbage
Antti-Juhani> collector requires no support from these, unless you
Antti-Juhani> integrate it into them...

        Well, that's true ... it'd be a matter of suggesting and doing
a proof-of-concept.

Antti-Juhani> Dependency loops.

        I cannot remember how these where handled now. You could
always implement a loop detector when doing the reference count
increase, not to increment counts on already done packages.

        Cheers,

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