Re: new topic: quick and dirty rpm related tools

Show me some pseudo and examples so I can visulize it...

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:12:06AM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Anyone know of a prewritten script or something that can help me keep
> track of extraneous rpms, that I can remove without running into
> dependancies.  Basically I'd like to keep up with a list of installed
> rpm's that aren't needed by other packages currently installed.  With a
> list like this I could find orphaned packages that I no longer need and
> can safely remove without running into dependancy problems.  I guess its
> sort of like an rpm pruning tool.
> 
> Now I don't know if this feature should be rolled into grab...but having
> a quick and dirty tool to keep my from collecting cruft on my system.
> 
> I could probably bang together a little shell script to do it using rpm
> -q statements, but I was wondering if something had already been
> written.
> 
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