Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

> > > > On 2/27/2008 at 11:23, Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Shared library packages (now, you need a way to automatically recognize
> > these) should be auto-removed once there is no dependency left on them.
> >
> > They can be re-installed if they become required again from an old
> > installation-source or if we decide to put them on a new media
> > anyway because it is widely used (it just won't be called compat-*
> > anymore).
>
> The problem might be: I install libSDL (a shared library, just an example) 
> using my favourite package manager, the RPM database knows about it. then I 
> download whatever game as source code and compile and install it.
>
> It will be rather impossible for any package manager in this case to NOW that 
> I have anything on my system that still 'depends' on libSDL (in other means 
> than in RPM terminology).

That's true.  What I'd like to see here is that your favorite package
manager remembers which libraries you installed explicitly and do not
auto-remove those.  At least this is what apt does in Debian.

Richard.
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