My understanding of this autoremove feature is: When I install a package which comes with some "hard" dependencies, (auto)removal of this package should remove what was installed before (except if I install those dependencies manually or if there are some packages which depend on them).
Please look at (Ubuntu) example here (installation of lighttpd and php5-cgi; libterm-readline-perl-perl keeps installed because of reverse suggested dependencies to icoutils and perl): http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/409287/ Imho this behavior is not sensible and you have to use other tools like deborphan to track those "orphaned" packages. (In fact in German support thread [1] we had to look closer at it to find reason why not all packages got removed.) I know this feature would not be very important but I hope to convince you with example above that it would be the expected behavior ;) . Regards Dominique Lasserre [1]: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/abhaengigkeiten-zusammen-mit-installiertem-pro/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
