[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Remove REQUIREDBY usage

[Dan McGee]

On Nov 13, 2007 12:26 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan, my hero. Looks like pacman 3.1 is going to be significantly better - yay.
>
> One question while we're on this - we're probably going to need a
> small script to clean out the requiredby entries from the local DB,
> just to be concise - of course we should back up the DB first 8)

Go right ahead, use libalpm for something useful! We should be able to
do the following- read in the whole localdb, then write every entry
back. The writeback will effectively clean out the DB.

-Dan