On 2/27/2008 at 11:23, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> 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). Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org