Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

[Horatio Leragon]

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 From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
 

> Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dpkg does indeed do dependency 
> checking. When provided with a bunch of .deb files to install it will take 
> care of proper ordering when needed (Depends:, Pre-Depends:, etc.) and will 
> refuse to install packages without satisfied dependencies unless > --force 
> switches are used.

What happens if we choose to use --force switches to install software with 
unsatisfied dependencies?

> The apt tools are useless without dpkg, however, dpkg will happily install 
> .deb files downloaded by any other means.

What are these "any other means"?