Re: Auto-removal of libraries?
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 08:39:00PM +0300, Esa Turtiainen wrote:
> A friend of mine had a good suggestion: why unused libraries are
> not removed automatically. Sounds good for me. It should be
> possible to mark a package as a library - I am intalling this only
> as a library and I am not interested in this package per se.
> If no other package needs that, APT is free to remove it. It makes
> sense that everything that is 'recommended' or 'suggested' is
> marked as a library but the user is free to change it to normal
> installed status.
See dejanews for posts with subjects:
David Engel on 24/09 Re: Back to RedHat
Peter Galbraith on 25/09 New dependencies mechanism suggested!
and a whole thread Re: "super" pkgs (was Re: Back to RedHat)
So, yes, it would be a good thing.
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