On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:30:23PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A cleaner implementation would be to create a simple program or script that > > would attempt to remove a given package and (recursively) all of its > > dependencies, skipping any that are depended upon by packages outside of the > > set of packages being manipulated. So if you had installed > > task-x-window-system-core, then later installed xterm (which depends on > > xlibs), > > you could run this hypothetical program on task-x-window-system-core, and > > remove all of the pieces of task-x-window-system-core that were not needed > > by > > other packages. > > > > This would make a good python-apt script. > > Yeah, and you could call it... Let's see... debfoster is a good name!
debfoster does not do what I described, as you can see by its description. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show debfoster > Package: debfoster > Priority: optional > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 80 > Maintainer: Ivo Timmermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 1.99+2.0pre8-2 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) > Recommends: apt > Filename: pool/main/d/debfoster/debfoster_1.99+2.0pre8-2_i386.deb > Size: 18488 > MD5sum: 9889daf0211f8ebae701f71d45fc5790 > Description: Install only wanted Debian packages > debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg. When first run, it > will ask you which of the installed packages you want to keep > installed. > . > After that, it maintains a list of packages that you want to have > installed on your system. It uses this list to detect packages that > have been installed only because other packages depended on them. If > one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take notice, and > ask if you want to remove the old package. > . > This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old > (mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used any more. How does this allow you to remove a task package in an intuitive way? That is what this discussion was about. -- - mdz
