Bug#149753: marked as done (dpkg: there should be a difference between wanted and non-wanted packages)
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From: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@ZhengHe.augustin.thierry>
Subject: dpkg: there should be a difference between wanted and non-wanted packages
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.21
Severity: wishlist
dpkg should make a difference between installed package that are wanted per
se, and installed packages that are merely used as dependency for a really
wanted package, so that the latter could be proposed for removal when
upgrading instead of remaining as crud that clutters the disk.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux nephe 2.4.6-ac5-nephe #10 Mon Aug 6 21:55:34 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-9 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:51:51 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>, 149753-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#149753: dpkg: there should be a difference between wanted and non-wanted packages
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Previously Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:
> dpkg should make a difference between installed package that are wanted per
> se, and installed packages that are merely used as dependency for a really
> wanted package, so that the latter could be proposed for removal when
> upgrading instead of remaining as crud that clutters the disk.
dpkg can not be aware of that difference, a high lever tool like apt
(or perhaps an apt frontend) needs to keep track of that. (I vaguely
remember aptitude can already do it)
Wichert.
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