On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > [...] > By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to install libA, libB, > progC, and depenF. Now when I apt-get remove progA, it will just remove > progA. I would like to remove progC and depenF as well, without removing > unused libraries (Since libraries don't bother me, and may interfere > with the programs I've installed from source). > [...]
This is why I use aptitude. One can use it with nearly exact the same
options as apt-get on the command line. Also it is the officially
prefered package management tool since the release of Sarge.
From the release notes [0]:
"2.1 What's new in the distribution?
[...]
The sarge version of aptitude is the preferred program for package
management from console. It has proven to be better at dependency
resolution than apt-get. aptitude supports most command line
operations of apt-get. If you are still using dselect, you should
also give aptitude a try as frontend for package management.
[...]"
Anyway, if you want to stick with apt-get so be it. But AFAIK there's
no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. You have to do
that manually. I guess that's why such packages like deborphan and
debfoster exist. I prefered debfoster back then.
Regards
Marcus
[0] http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html
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