[depot_autoremove] Removing outdated PGKs from the depot

[Martin Stein]

Hi Alice,

I discovered Norman's mail right after sending my response :)
But yes, I'd also say that our ideas are compatible. Your plans sound
very reasonable to me and I appreciate that you're willing to get your
hands on it! Don't hesitate to ask if you run into uncertainties!

Cheers,
Martin

On 10.03.23 17:44, Alice Domage wrote:
> Dear Martin,
> 
> Thank you for sharing your thought!
> 
> If I understand correctly, your thoughts are aligned with Norman's
> suggestions.
> 
> So this would be a standalone component. It can be started manually for
> performing specific
> depot clean-up tasks. Eventually, a higher-level management component
> could also use it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alice
> 
> On 3/10/23 10:25, Martin Stein wrote:
>> Hi Alice,
>>
>> AFAIK, this doesn't exist so far. I personally would really appreciate
>> to have such a tool at hand but don't have the time to dive into it
>> currently. However, I suspect that this kind of tool is part of a
>> complete new abstraction layer (software management) on top of the
>> current rather manual/low-level depot management (and not a mere
>> addition to the latter) because I see other tasks connected to it like
>> detecting and applying updates of packages in the "installed list" and
>> managing the "installed list".
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
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