Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

[MallarJ@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/29/99 2:29:43 AM Central Standard Time,
mblevin@debian.org writes:

> Apt will keep a boolean flag called 'Auto' for each package installed
>  on your system.  'Auto' is short for 'Automatically uninstall this
>  package when it is not required anymore because of a dependency'.
>  
>  So, when you install package foo, and apt automatically installs
>  libfoo1 and libfoo2 because they are required by foo, then they will
>  be marked with the 'Auto' flag.  Later, if you deinstall foo, then apt
>  will also deinstall libfoo1 and libfoo2, provided they are no longer
>  needed by any other packages.
>  
	

This sounds like a great idea..   I have one question tho:

Foo depends on libfoo1 and libfoo2
libfoo1 depends on foostuff1 and foostuff2

So, say I remove foo, will it be smart enough to remove foostuff1 and
footstuff2 as well as libfoo1 and libfoo2?

-Jay