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

[Thomas Moschny]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Agreed, the cron script should be opt-in. But see how your last
> argument ("I want to keep old libs") contradicts your starting one
> ("My HDD fills with old libs I don't want"). The important issue is,
> of course, that you want *only the old libs you need* which if
> external to rpm's world (e.g. /usr/local, $HOME, some network device)
> is impossible for rpm and any other package tool to judge.

Not if they would be able to record what I originally requested to be  
installed. I could have done something like
$ any-pkg-tool install lzo-devel "liblzo2_2 (= 2.02-4.fc7)"
Now, a package-tool able to remember these dependencies introduced by hand 
would be able to later update lzo-devel to a new version (thereby installing 
the corresponding liblzo package), but it would have to keep 
liblzo2_2-2.02-4.fc7. Much easier than any form of pinning, or (in the case 
discussed here) manually (or with the help of cron) removing all but some 
lib* packages.

- Thomas
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