Re: [zypp-devel] Automatic removal of orphan depencencies

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:

On Tuesday 16 December 2008 13:12:36 Cristian Morales Vega wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:52:49PM +0100, Paolo Tuninetto wrote:

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I try to explain... IMHO one of the most annoying missing feature in the openSUSE package management (afaik, YaST and zypper) is that once a user installs a package (i.e. in order to test it), the package management automagically checks for missing dependencies and find all libraries that are required but not yet installed and install them. This is cool, The missing feature is that when the user uninstalls the package all the installed dependencies are left there... there is no help in finding where are such orphan packages. First of all... is it true? Is there no way to "cleanup" such dependencies? Something that is doing the work "apt-get autoremove" is doing in Ubuntu Systems. Actually I'm working on something like that, but it didn't make it into 11.1.

The idea is to also remove all packages that could have been pulled in by the package in question and couldn't get pulled in by the packages that stay installed.

Note though, that you should carefully check the result of this operation so that packages you still need don't get deinstalled. Thus, it's more an YaST thing, I don't know if it can be handled in zypper. Aptitude behavior is explained at http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s02s07.htm l. It seems sane to me. Is not perfect, perhaps something that was "automatically installed" now is something that you want to mantain. But since you can change

2008/12/16 Michael Schroeder : the state of any package between automatically and manually installed you can always fix it. But I think right now apt-get, aptitude and deborphan mantain their own, different, database of automatically/manually installed packages (I think I saw a tool to sync them)... so I would argue that this info should be stored at RPM level and not at ZYpp level.

RPM does not have solver, so it would just provide a storage for layer above.

We have /var/log/zypp/history (http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Package_History) which stores the info about who installed what. Michael, will you use that file (or do you prefer to have your own format an have somthing to convert from the history file to your format?). We have a fate for that as well, #300758 (and #302862). - -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team - ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 - ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz - ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)--- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklHqxcACgkQgEhGpmN+6QHFggCfT0is95PDREbxRINzOt19JmJL gwUAnAnDYlshbOydK2E3/f470ke+zVla =DcCa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org