On Vi, 16 iul 10, 19:35:13, Tom Furie wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > > > Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of > > packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a > > depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? > > I don't know about other apt tools, but aptitude resolves these > situations automatically, so long as the packages in question are marked > as being automatically installed.
Not in my experience. I installed some package to try out and on purge most of the dependencies stayed. I had to use aptitude's log to search for the culprit(s). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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