[openbeos] Re: on SoftwareValet for OBOS

  • From: "Matt Verran" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:18:08 +0000

Deej

 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.

Fantastic idea, solves it in a BeOS way - I like it!



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