[ATrpms-users] Packaging standars (Was: lzo on RHEL3)

[Thomas Moschny]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Can you please post the output of these tools? yum and apt never
> remove a package if it isn't obsoleted (which is not the case here)
> and smart is smart enough to install both liblzo1 and liblzo2. If not
> then there is a bug somehwere, not a general design issue.

One of the design issues is that these lib* packages will stay there and 
linger around in my system even when they are not needed anymore, until I 
remove them manually or with the help of yum's package-cleanup or whatever.

The reason is that the existing infrastructure (librpm and it's frontends 
smart/yum/apt) doesn't differentiate between packages that were installed 
because user explicitly wished so, and those packages that were installed as 
a dependency. Doing so would require the frontends to maintain their own 
persistent knowledge about installed packages, as the rpm database doesn't 
contain that information.

- Thomas

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Thomas Moschny  <thomas.moschny at gmx.de>
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