On Monday 26 May 2003 10:48, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2003 11:22, David Goodenough wrote: > > As an aside it is a shame that Debian does not have the concept of a > > removal meta-package. [...] > > > > The alternative would be an option on apt-get remove which said to go > > down the tree and remove everything that this depends on that nothing > > else depends on (and is not essential). But that could do too deep down > > the tree. > > apt-get remove xxx, followed by 'orphaner -a' has always taken care of this > problem for me. > > -- vbi
Well now that I look at orphaner (and deborphaner come to that) it would indeed seem to do what I need. Maybe I had not asked the right question before, but I had not come across this package. It is a shame that this is not directly part of apt-get. Thanks David
