Synaptic : will it still there in Edgy ??

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 03:12 +0000, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> >> expressing a wish, what would like the product to do
> > Yes but if you want two features that are fundamentally incompatible you
> > will be told "that cannot be done".
> 
> I think that it is implementation that is impossible rather than the wish.
> 

Have you looked at deborphan?  I think it solves the exact problem.
It's just dangerous if the user has ever bypassed the package management
system (either by comping stuff from source or writing their own
scripts).  With the right documentation it could be solved I think.

Lee