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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing Deps
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On Thursday 05 September 2002 06:35 pm, Evan Read wrote:
> Perhaps a dependency counter could be applied to each package (stored i=
n a
> table?) and, when unmerging a package, portage could lower the dep coun=
t on
> the dependecies of that package.

Okay, but what is the count of a package that has no deps that you merged=
 in?
If I merge in BZFlag, it starts at dep count of 0 because it isn't a dep =
of=20
anything, then portage would then flag this for removal if I try to see a=
=20
list of zerodeps? This wouldn't work, as most packages are not deps of a=20
package. What about a flag that this was a dep and try to calculate if it=
 is=20
or isn't anymore?