making deborphan obsolete?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:27:31PM -0400, Chris Peterman wrote:
> And what exactly is wrong with Deborphan (and its GUI, GTKOrphan (I think 
> thats the name)? Also, IIRC Aptitude already does this.

Deborphan only removes packages that begin with 'lib', I
believe. Suppose, for whatever reason, that you wanted to
install mozilla-venkman but you didn't already have firefox
installed. So you install Venkman, apt-get installs Firefox,
and later on you remove Venkman. Now you look at deborphan;
it doesn't tell you that you installed Firefox purely to
satisfy a dependency in Venkman. Hence you have an orphaned
package that doesn't show up in deborphan.

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