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Re: Is this really the right thing to do?



Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's
already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are
removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted.
Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero.


Larry de Graaf

>Note that you can't just delete packages as count goes to zero
>(or the last dependand is removed) because it may provide 
>something useful by itself.
>Example:  You may still want to keep "xterm", even if you removed all the
>programs that depend on it.  
>
>Helge Hafting


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