[packagekit] RFC - easy install/remove

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 10:59 +0100, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> > You don't only want to remove the first level/direct dependencies, but
> > also all recursive ones. So this is should clearly be done by the
> > backend. Even handling all direct dependencies is out of scope for
> > packagekit itself.
> >   
> And it is also a "best effort" operation and not a predictable operation.

Totally. To be honest, disk space is cheap, and so the risk of removing
a library that is used locally but not required by a package is too high
for me.

If you're the sort of person who cares about the disk space wasted by a
54Kb library, you're probably not a typical PackageKit user:
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-profiles.html

Richard.