extended remove functionality
MadMan2k
madman2k at gmx.de
Wed May 4 16:17:47 CDT 2005
there is a basic problem with the way synaptic/ apt handles removing
packages;
it neither removes the directly depandancies(libs) nor the indirectly
depandancies(other packages).
Therfore you will get a lot of orphaned packages after a while.
Now you could use deborphan/ the deborphan filter in synaptic.
But this is also not statisfying, since you would only get the libs with
synaptic or get too many packages with "deborphan --all-packages" via
console - and because there is no possibility to select which packages
to remove and which to keep, you have to manually copy & paste the
respective name for every package.
And you have to repeat this procedure over and over until you've rached
the final recursion level.
Therefore I thik the problem should be solved at the source and a option
equivalent to "pacman -Rcsn" [1] should be added to apt/ synaptic.
Greets
M2K
[1] http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html
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