Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:41 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
>I can confirm this, however I wonder why this sort of thing even happens
>- it would make sense to me if a package which nothing depended on would
>get accidently removed, but I would think that the buildsystem would
>throw up warnings when you remove something that is needed.
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The functionality of hotplug is no longer needed. However some packages
were compiled against it in the past. Currently our internal tool for
removing a package from a distro does not do a depcheck to see if
anything requires it. It just isn't that smart. Good news though,
we're rewriting these tools so that the next gen could be this smart.
(;
In case anyone finds this useful I wrote a simple
reverse dependency checker the other say:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/whatrequires
Pádraig.