Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A cleaner implementation would be to create a simple program or script that > would attempt to remove a given package and (recursively) all of its > dependencies, skipping any that are depended upon by packages outside of the > set of packages being manipulated. So if you had installed > task-x-window-system-core, then later installed xterm (which depends on > xlibs), > you could run this hypothetical program on task-x-window-system-core, and > remove all of the pieces of task-x-window-system-core that were not needed by > other packages. > > This would make a good python-apt script.
Yeah, and you could call it... Let's see... debfoster is a good name! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show debfoster Package: debfoster Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 80 Maintainer: Ivo Timmermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.99+2.0pre8-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) Recommends: apt Filename: pool/main/d/debfoster/debfoster_1.99+2.0pre8-2_i386.deb Size: 18488 MD5sum: 9889daf0211f8ebae701f71d45fc5790 Description: Install only wanted Debian packages debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg. When first run, it will ask you which of the installed packages you want to keep installed. . After that, it maintains a list of packages that you want to have installed on your system. It uses this list to detect packages that have been installed only because other packages depended on them. If one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take notice, and ask if you want to remove the old package. . This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old (mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used any more. -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tSA Consulting | OpenPGP key ID: DE89C75C, available on key servers OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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