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Re: Weak Install (Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included)




Guys & gals, let's not go there (again)!  Debian already has "weak install" in the form of depencies even if this requires a separate package with the license on which every package that refers to the license should depend.

This is what we do, by the way, because the /usr/share/common-licenses/* files are in the base-files package which is Essential which is an implicit way of saying that all packages depend on it.

What *would* be nice would if there was a "weak install" status for *packages* with the meaning that a "weakly installed" (or "passive") package is automatically removed when there are no other packages depending on it.  This would eliminate the main reason for the "orphan library package" problem.

Best,
        Kristoffer <krisrose@debian.org>

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