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Re: Package dependency tree in pkg order



On Jul 17, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome <masoto@uniandes.edu.co> wrote:

> Actually, runtime libraries and other "service" packages (i. e.
> packages not intented for final users to work with them directly but
> for other packages to depend on them) should be removed automatically
> when the packages needing them are removed.  Are there any plans on
> dpkg or Deity to implemment this?

Please, no. I spent the time to download the library, and while I would
be glad to get a tool that told me which lib* packages I no longer need,
I'll take care of removing them.

Actually, there's nothing wrong with providing this as an optional
function...

Steve

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