On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:39:16PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > We already have something for that. It's called "Section: libs" > and deborphan, and it works great. > > Perhaps we should just move to section libs any package which is > useless by itself, and it's only useful in combination with others, > much like libraries, but without requiring them to be real libraries.
That would then be an abuse of the section field. A data package is not a lib. How about a field (or a debtag) useless-alone, which deborphan and aptitude and whatnot can garbage-collect when nothing depends on such a package? That would solve the problem with Uninstall-with: foo when another package suddenly needs the data package. -- Petri Latvala
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