Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> 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?

I don't know.  I am not doing the coding.  One would assume that
since apt can handle recursive dependencies when installing, it should
be able to do the same when removing.