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Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies






From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

> Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to install it will take
> care of proper ordering when needed (Depends:, Pre-Depends:, etc.) and will refuse to install packages without satisfied dependencies unless > --force switches are used.

What happens if we choose to use --force switches to install software with unsatisfied dependencies?

> The apt tools are useless without dpkg, however, dpkg will happily install .deb files downloaded by any other means.

What are these "any other means"?

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