Re: Last part of the proposed changes to debian-faq

[Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>]

Holger Wansing wrote:
>>> pkgtools:403:
[...]
>>> remove them, when no packages needing them remain in your system.
[...]
>>> maybe needing here is invalid?
[...]
> 
> What I understood from victory's comment is, that "needing" is probably
> a too strict verb in this case, better using some more diffuse word like
> "making use of". (Using "depending on them", as I have suggested in my
> other mail, is probably also not ideal.)
> There is no strict package dependency set for this cases (no Depends: ),
> so it should not be said, that the package *needs* the other one?

Well, I don't know which objection victory was raising, but your
suggestion works either way.

     remove them, when no packages making use of them remain in your system.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package