On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:42:49AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > #3: Dpkg enhancement > -------------------- > > (Already suggested to Ian last night; what do other people think?) > > Many of the users are prepared to try out new packages when they see them > in dselect. They like the way that dependencies are met: if package foo > needs library bar, then dselect will tell them and automatically select > bar for installation. But what happens when foo is deinstalled because the > user doesn't like it or no longer needs it? Currently, the library will be > left behind even if no other package is using it, which is a bit of a > waste of disk... If we can keep a reference count of how many packages > depend on each, then when a given program/library is no longer depended > upon we can suggest it be removed. Of course, we will also need a flag for > each package to say if it was selected by the user or automatically > flagged for installation; if selected manually then the user probably > wants to keep it, of course... something that just output a list of packages which are not required/suggested/recommended by other packages would be nice. Quickest way to save lots of diskspace would be to pipe the output of that to grep lib and decide based on that what you don't really need.
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