Synaptic : will it still there in Edgy ??

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:31 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Saturday 20 May 2006 05:07, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op do, 18-05-2006 te 06:20 +0200, schreef Vincent Trouilliez:
> > > 3) When I ask to remove a package, I would like to bloody REMOVE the
> > > package ! (remove whatever dependencies where pulled when it got
> > > installed).
> >
> > This can break expected functionality of other applications (especially
> > if they were installed after the one you want to uninstall).
> How hard would it be to implement a feature to eliminate libraries with no 
> dependencies installed?

Trivial.  As I pointed out earlier it's a simple matter of:

dpkg -P `deborphan`

Repeat until deborphan does not return anything.  (Sorry I'm too rusty
to make that a shell script)

Lee