Re: proposed changes to debian-faq

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > So I have changed that into
> > > 
> > > "the program can be run without the data itself, making `foo-data' optional."
> > > 
> > > That brought me to this part:
> > > 
> > > "If you use <prgn>aptitude</prgn> (see <ref
> > > id="aptitude">) as your package management tool it will, however,
> > > track automatically installed packages and remove them when no
> > > packages remain that need them in your system."
> > > 
> > > This is no longer true strictly spoken, since apt now also provides this
> > > feature (see 'apt-get autoremove').
> > > So I have changed this into:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > However, if you use <prgn>apt-get</prgn> 
> > > (see <ref id="apt-get">) or <prgn>aptitude</prgn> (see <ref id="aptitude">)
> > > as your package management tool, they will
> > > track automatically installed packages and give the possibility to
> > > remove them, when no packages needing them remain in your system.
> > 
> > That all looks good.
> 
> Ok, thanks.
> 
> I have cooked a patch summarizing all the suggestions here together,
> just for reference.

Just committed.

Thanks

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