making deborphan obsolete?

[Bikram विक्रम]

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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