Bruce Sass wrote: > Has a more primitive method been considered (i.e., an option to dpkg > which tries to purge or remove stuff a package depends on)? > e.g., dpkg --remove|--purge [--excise] <package> I don't know. Ask Ian or ask on debian-dpkg. I *do* know that the cache for the auto flag is implemented by apt, not dpkg. You can read the details in /usr/doc/apt/cache.text.gz in the packages libapt-pkg-doc. -Mitch