Re: apt-get

[Warren Turkal <wt@atmos.colostate.edu>]

On Friday 18 May 2007 08:03, Howard Young wrote:
> Thank you for this link. I have read the information but it seems not to
> have a specific option for what I want.

If you use aptitude for everything, it will keep track of packages that are 
automatically installed when a specific package is installed. For instance, 
if I install a package that pulls in libpq4, I can remove that package and 
aptitude will remove the libpg4 assuming I haven't installed anything else 
that depends on it. I believe this functionality would address what you want. 
The key is that you have to use aptitude for all package 
installation/uninstallation tasks.

wt
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Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator
Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science