Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.33 Severity: wishlist When I cleaned up my disk of stale files, I found out that I had just about 100MB of unneeded libraries floating around, and thought it would be nice if dpkg could remove all the libraries that are no longer needed together with the package I just removed.
My suggestion on how to achieve this would be a new installation request: "Install if other packages depend on it, remove otherwise". This could be the default value for just about any package starting with lib*, because they seldom add functionality to the system by themselves. Of course, the user should be able to explicitly request installation.
