tags 352267 moreinfo unreproducible severity 352267 normal thanks On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:46:26PM +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote: > I intended to purge dbus-1 so I could make sure that the config > files were the Debian defaults. I intended to re-install > dbus-1 immediately afterwards. So, I did > apt-get --purge dbus-1 > I expected this to purge dbus-1. I expected that other packages > would be removed (because they depend on dbus-1), but not purged. Well, that's an incorrect assumption; for a package to be purged, packages depending on it must also be purged. > Lo and Behold, a dozen packages were purged. The darn thing > didn't even stop to ask me! Well, I *definitely* can't reproduce this. If I try to purge a package that has reverse-dependencies installed on the system, I get this: # apt-get --purge remove samba-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libpam-smbpass* linpopup* samba* samba-common* smbclient* smbfs* swat* winbind* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 36 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 29.7MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? # Which explicitly lists all the packages to be removed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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