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Bug#367109: marked as done (Ability to remove unused dependencies of a package when removing it with "apt-get remove")

Your message dated Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:36 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #367109,
regarding Ability to remove unused dependencies of a package when removing it with "apt-get remove"
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Package: apt
Severity: wishlist

I would found very useful to have an option to remove all unused dependencies 
of a package when removing it. I insist on "WHEN REMOVING IT" because I know 
the existance of deborphan, but it's not why I want.

eg: apt-get remove --with-deps myapp
This command would remove the package "myapp" but also all its dependencies 
not used by any other installed package.
Obviously, it should ask for a confirmation before doing it:
"These packages will be removed because no other package depends on them 
anymore [Y/n]"

At the moment this can be made manualy with "apt-cache depends package" to see 
the dependencies of the package to remove and then with "apt-cache 
rdepends --installed" for each one of them to see if any other installed 
package depends on it. If not you can remove it.
What I would like is an automated way to do it :)

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Version: 0.7.0

Automatic dependency removal was introduced in apt 0.7.0.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF

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