Synaptic : will it still there in Edgy ??

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Saturday 20 May 2006 06:42, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > The problem with removing unused dependencies automatically is it will
> > break programs compiled from source that depend on the libraries in
> > these packages.
>
> Well it's not a big problem. I mean you use "checkinstall" when you
> install from source, so it can integrate with the package management
> software. IIRC it makes a deb file, so I guess if it breaks you can just
> re-install the deb and it will tell you what dependency went missing.
> Maybe it could possibly re-install it automatically, dunno.
Checkinstall makes a deb package, but does not list its dependencies. This you 
would have to do by making the deb packages manually. Only the simplest ones 
are really going to be compileably through checkinstall

Sasha