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Re: Clarification on just what the kde metapackages are (was: kdeprint depends on efax)



On Friday 23 May 2003 11:22, David Goodenough wrote:

> As an aside it is a shame that Debian does not have the concept of a
> removal meta-package. [...]

> The alternative would be an option on apt-get remove which said to go down
> the tree and remove everything that this depends on that nothing else
> depends on (and is not essential).  But that could do too deep down the
> tree.

apt-get remove xxx, followed by 'orphaner -a' has always taken care of this 
problem for me.

-- vbi

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		-- Henrik Tikkanen

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