Previously Mitch Blevins wrote: > One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that > you may have other packages that also use the same support package. > You would have to grep the dependency database to ensure you > weren't removing a library/package that was used elsewhere. > Even then, you may have programs in /usr/local that are not tracked > by dpkg and need one of those libraries. Go to http://www.debian.org/~wakkerma/, grab the latest apt-design text from there and read section 5.2 . I think that covers what you are looking for. If not I'ld like to know what you want to see different and why. 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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