On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:13 +0200, Lubos Kosco wrote: > Hi guys > > I got a good question asked on a presentation of OpenSolaris, namely: > > If you uninstall a package using IPS pkg command, will also its > dependencies, that it installed, be uninstalled , when they are no > longer used by any other packages? > > I guess the guy ment if we have something like deborphan ( > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/deborphan , > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/134 ), which in debian is > integrated inside apt which then cleans up unneeded packages > automagically afaik. > > I tried it with e.g. virtualbox package from extra repos ... it depends > on virtualbox-kernel ... BUT when you uninstall virtualbox, > virtualbox-kernel STILL stays on your system, even though no other > packages need it and it can be removed ... > > so if you got any ideas or can point me to some info about this matter, > please do so > > thanks > Lubos > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
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