Alberto Salvia Novella <es204904...@gmail.com> writes: > The problem seems to be that the package manager does not make its basic > functionality, which is to make clear for users which packages they wish > to remove.
> For me it seems a minor problem that a console tool could be removed, > compared with packages accumulating and no longer been able to tell which > of those are really needed or not. I completely disagree. A package manager should default to retaining packages in case they're useful, not default to removing them. Removing packages is far more destructive than keeping unused packages. > Specially when the kind of user who uses the console is who could tell > when this tool will be removed, and the package manager would list > those. There are multiple tools that do things like this. I'm very happy with how apt works now; I think it's correctly doing what it should in the situation described in this thread. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>