On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:39:51PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:21:01PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > While I don't pretend to know what I am talking about, wouldn't simply > > keeping a central list, say /var/db/pkg/installed, of 'installed by > > request' packages work? > > > Of course, this would break the current structure of /var/db/pkg, which > > is probably a Bad Idea. > > Yes, this would. > > But having a pseudo-package called .user, which would only register > these dependencies, might be a good idea...
Except for the fact that this will create +REQUIRED_BY for end-user packages... darn. special-casing this looks awfully kludgy.
