Synaptic : will it still there in Edgy ??

[Jan Claeys]

Op vr, 19-05-2006 te 23:06 -0400, schreef Shawn McMahon:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:31:19AM +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin said:
> >
> > How hard would it be to implement a feature to eliminate libraries with no 
> > dependencies installed?
> 
> It's already been done.  Now how do you make that detect libraries that
> are not being used by anything outside the packaging system, and that
> you weren't intending to use tomorrow? 

Even worse, e.g.:

        $ apt-cache rdepends gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
        gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
        Reverse Depends:
        $

How would apt know whether I use such a "library" or not?


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Jan Claeys