[packagekit] Orphan package tracking

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 00:10:31 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 09:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Interesting feature:
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Alpha_2#Orphan_package_detection_in_urpmi

Yes, I think smart can do this too -- and yum can with a plugin IIRC.
I'm just not sure that we could convey this to the average user without
confusing them. I also think we could just use RemovePackage(deps=true)
to remove these automatically at remove time.

Richard.





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