>Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's >already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are >removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted. >Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero.
Then, they'd have to start with a counter of 1 only when they were selected by the user, and a counter of 0 when dselect selected to enforce a dependency. - Joe