Re: looking at deborphan's output first
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Is part of deborphan's job to clean up for sloppy package maintainers'
> bad Depends: etc. fields?
no.
A depends on B, A gets removed, B is still there -- can't remove B
because you may have compiled something against it.
> Or during normal usage does a debian system
> accrue useless packages?
Useless, no, not needed anymore... yes.
,...>
> Any sure tests? Would I have linked to one of them if I never
> compile anything on my own?
no. no. Installing from a tarball is another way to get a dependency
which dpkg doesn't know about.
- Bruce
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