[Rule-list] Help needed for distro_analyzer and self dependencies

Ed Blackman rule-list at edgewood.to
Tue Aug 13 18:32:38 EEST 2002


On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 07:27:59AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> 	preprocess it once and for all, removing all the provided
> 		files not explicitly required by other packages.
> 		EX: bash installs 271 files. I list them all, realize
> 		only /bin/sh and /bin/bash are needed by the others,
> 		erase all the other 269.

That's an excellent idea!  No special cases in the db builder code,
but the final db isn't bloated by a bunch of files that we don't need.

Ed
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