On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 10:00:16AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Suppose package C depends on package B depends on package A. > Now, it just so happens that no other packages depend on B, > but package D also depends on A. > If I do a > apt-get remove C > is it supposed to do the right thing and remove B as well (but not > remove A)? -chris
i'm not sure why you say removing B would be the right thing to do. Say you have uptimed and uprecords-cgi installed, and you want to remove uprecords-cgi. By your logic, it would be "right" for uptimed to be removed since nothing else depends on it, even though uptimed is perfectly usable without uprecords-cgi. Also, keep in mind that a package may be depended on by locally-installed (or even locally-written) software. dpkg/apt would have no idea of this dependancy, but things would break if those packages were removed. apt-get remove will remove C in your example, and any packages that depend on C (and packages depending on those, etc). It won't touch A, B, or D unless they depend on C in some way. -- finger for GPG public key.
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