> -----Original Message----- > From: James Di Toro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:19 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Removing dependancys > > Ok, after spending an hour running dpkg to remove x and everything > that depended on it I went back into the docs to see if I had missed > any thing, and lo and behold the '-b' option reared it's head. But > this just says that it will 'deconfigure' the packages that depend on > it.
This isn't exactly an answer/solution. But in the future, take a look at 'debfoster' (and/or maybe 'deborphan'). The former apparently keeps track of this sort of thing for you, so you can get rid of leftovers. I have it installed, but haven't used it yet... I just found it a couple days ago while rummaging through dselect. Jeff Bonner
