Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:47PM -0800, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:42:30PM +0000, Countable Infinity <countableinfinity@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed
> > libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do:
> > 
> > aptitude purge xfce4-terminal
> > 
> > it does not remove these libs that were installed automatically.
> > 
> > Is there a way to remove these automatically installed packages  when
> > nothing depends on them any more?
> 
>   What does "aptitude why xfce4-terminal" print?

  Since everyone is ignoring this and talking about whether the Options
menu exists, let me try again:

  I think "aptitude why xfce4-terminal" will probably tell you
something like this:

daniel@emurlahn:~$ aptitude why xfce4-terminal
i   xorg           Depends  xterm | x-terminal-emulator
p   xfce4-terminal Provides x-terminal-emulator        

  It won't be removed automatically because xorg depends on it.  Does
that answer your question?

  Daniel