Requires(pre) support?

Vincent Danen vdanen at annvix.org
Mon Jul 10 12:36:42 PDT 2006


* Ville Skytt? <vskytta at gmail.com> [2006-07-09 15:53:37 +0300]:

> > I'm not a complete idiot.
> 
> Implying that was certainly not my intention.
> 
> > Does rpm actually remove a program that is no longer
> > required by anything else at the end of executing the %pre script?  That
> > seems... wrong.
> 
> FWIW, I disagree with "wrong", but yes, it allows removing such a thing
> afterwards.

Ok, but does it remove it automatically if it's not required by anything
else?  I suppose I'll have to do some more reading on that to understand
when and how it might remove the file.

Regardless, this doesn't help with apt not following Requires(pre)
ordering.

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