On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Is part of deborphan's job to clean up for sloppy package maintainers' > bad Depends: etc. fields?
no. A depends on B, A gets removed, B is still there -- can't remove B because you may have compiled something against it. > Or during normal usage does a debian system > accrue useless packages? Useless, no, not needed anymore... yes. ,...> > Any sure tests? Would I have linked to one of them if I never > compile anything on my own? no. no. Installing from a tarball is another way to get a dependency which dpkg doesn't know about. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
