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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