making deborphan obsolete?

[Lutzer]

I use Ubuntu 5.10 and used Debian sarge before. On these two systems
apt-get and Synaptic do NOT remove former required packages.


Bikram विक्रम schrieb:
> Greets!
> 
> I guess, synaptic/aptitude and even apt-get/dpkg remove the dependency
> packages (if not used by other packages) while removing the main
> package.
> 
> On 4/11/06, Lutzer <M.Lutzer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> If I use synaptic (or apt-get) to install an application A a required
>> library L is automatically installed as well. This is quite comfortable
>> and a well known feature.
>>
>> I'm wondering why a similar feature does not exist for removing packages
>> (AFAIK). If I decide later to remove application A than the former
>> required library L remains in the system without any usage. I think it
>> should be quite easy to implement such a feature in apt-get. (for
>> instance: apt-get sets a flag to all packages which are installed
>> because of dependencies to others. If a package is removed, all packages
>> which were required by these package, have the flag and are not needed
>> any more by another installed package are proposed to be removed as well.)
>>
>> Such a feature would cause a slim and clean system automatically to any
>> newbie who is capable to use apt-get or synaptic for example.
>>
>> Lutz
>>
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> 
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