On Monday 1 March 1999, at 15 h 49, the keyboard of Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Very bad idea (making it the default value). What about libraries which are used only by /usr/local/* stuff, thus not visible for dpkg?
