Re: New approach to obsolete packages
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999, Hugo Haas wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 09, 1999, Richard Braakman wrote:
>> I think a general solution might be to add a single new dpkg flag:
>>
>> Self-Destruct: Yes
>>
>> This tells dpkg to automatically remove the package if nothing else
>> depends on it.
>
>I think that this is a very good idea. It could even be extended to remove
>"unused" libraries (by unused, I mean that no package depends on the
>library anymore).
>
>I often had to install particular libraries to test a package, and I had to
>write down their names so that I could remove them manually when I had
>finished my evaluation.
Of course we need a way of easily preventing such removal if it's not desired.
I've got some libc5 programs in /usr/local/bin but have no Debian packages that
depend on libc5...
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