[openbeos] Re: on SoftwareValet for OBOS

  • From: J.Seemer@xxxxxx
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:19:24 +0100 (MET)

> ever write to system directories.  Another thought that came up that
> was what I thought, a good idea - use attributes on the shared library
> files to "register" programs using them.  Then you could have an app
> (such as an installer/uninstaller) search the file attributes of
> installed shared libraries and remove any that had no applications
> assigned to them.  This, of course, requires that all application
> developers "registered" their programs with shared libs by adding to
> the attributes of the libs.  Food for thought.
> Deej

Not being a programmer this may be a stupid idea...
Would it be possible to have "intelligent" shared libraries that add the
calling application to its attribute if it's not registered there already. Or
does this add a major overhead?

Just a thought.
cu
J.Seemer

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