Previously 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> No, and an option like this should not be in dpkg either. Dpkg is a tool to install and remove packages and the package database. Magic like this should be done in a frontend, not in dpkg itself. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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