On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: <about auto-removing unneeded packages>
> I think the best solution would be to be able to mark packages in dselect > and dpkg, just like we currently have them marked as 'purge', 'hold', etc. > We would just add a way to mark packages as > 'installed-but-not-wanted-on-its-own-merits-so-uninstall-it-when-all- > packages-needing-it-are-gone', or IBNWOIOMSUIWAPNIAG for short. Yes, this has been proposed several times before and I don't think anyone would be against such an option. But looking at the huge list of bug reports dpkg has, I doubt anyone with sufficient knowledge of dpkg has the time to implement it. Remco
