On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:26:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
was heard to say:
> An alternative but safer way would be to record which packages were
> installed with aptitude only to fulfill a dependency and mark them as
> unwanted.

  This is exactly what aptitude does (assuming "unwanted" means "will
be removed when nothing depends on it")

  Daniel

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