extended remove functionality

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:17:47PM +0200, MadMan2k wrote:
>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.

There is a nice tool that solves this problem: debfoster. If you can
live with a command line tool that is.

/M

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