apt: dependancy removing

Chris Peterman c.peterman at gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 17:36:54 GMT 2005


I believe Aptitude does this. Also you can use Debfoster/Deborphan to
run through your installed package list and scan for unneed packages.

~ Chris Peterman

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 18:20 +0100, MadMan2k wrote:
> during the breezy development, this issue has already been discussed and 
> afair
> there was already someone working on this - is this still being dealt with?
> 
> the issue in short:
> if you remove package A, which used to depend on package B, package B 
> wont be removed even if there is no package C, which could also depend 
> on package B.
> 
> M2k
> 
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