Warp wrote:
>   What's the package manager going to do? Scan the entire system for
> executables which might be using that library? Sure, it could do that,
> if you want to wait.

Even that wouldn't necessarily work. Note I didn't say there was an easy fix 
for the problem. I was mocking the attitude that since there isn't an *easy* 
fix, then it *should* break.  I.e., that the attitude is "this should be 
broken" rather than "this is regrettably broken."

But sure, if you uninstall stuff and it leaves libraries around, I can 
imagine a button you could push that says "Scan all the executables right 
now and tell me what libraries are installed that no executable references." 
Along with "tell me the last time someone loaded this library."  Then you 
could clean things up that stopped being used when you deleted some package 
six months ago.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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