rpmreaper

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Tue Jun 3 16:28:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:51:09AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > I've put together a small ncurses application for removing unnecessary
> > packages and their dependencies from the system.
> 
> out of curiosity: any reason you did this in c directly to rpmlib rather
> than just using the routines that already exist in python and yum's
> libraries?

I prefer C for this kind of applications and the code for reading
rpmdb is quite simple, so using the libraries probably wouldn't help
much.

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Miroslav Lichvar




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