Re: package manager question

[Christopher Davis <cldavis99@speakeasy.net>]

Fabiana Jorge wrote:
> Hello,
>       I've been reading some stuff about apt, dpkg  and I wonder if it is
> possible to have more control on package's dependencies. Is there other
> package managers for debian that are able to support it?
>       I've found this at www.debian.org
>          " As you can see in the above example, APT also takes care of
> removing packages which depend on the package you have asked to remove.
> There is no way to remove a package using APT without also removing those
> packages that depend on it.".
>        I hope this only matters to apt. :S
>        Thanks.

You can use dpkg for this scenario.  For example if you want 
to remove exim without removing mailx, or the exim 
daemons....Caution as the below command will cause major 
issues with not properly addressed and is only for an example.

# dpkg --ignore-depends=exim4 -r exim4

Regards, Chris