gnome-app-install to remove package dependencies?

[The Saltydog]

On 10/3/05, Ricardo Pérez López <ricpelo at ono.com> wrote:
> I think gnome-app-install must removes both mysql-admin and
> mysql-admin-common, because none of them is used now.
>
> Is it planned for gnome-app-install to support this functionality?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ricardo.
>
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I think that gnome-app-.install uses apt-get to remove packages. And
when you remove  package <foo>, apt-get removes all packages that
"depends" on <foo>, not those from which <foo> depends upon. And this
is correct:  if you remove a gtk+ application, you don't want apt-get
to remove also libgtk2 from your system...
In your case, just remove mysql-admin-common, and it will also remove
mysql-admin package.

This is a metter of orphaning. I am working on a specific application for that.