On 24 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: (snip) > dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt.
Damn, that's annoying. ): I suppose that eventually I'll have to switch back to apt, then. Hopefully it'll work better for me by then. > Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to > > deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of > > something you just deselected. > > That's a tricky task for the system to handle because it can't read > your mind. There are tools like deborphan which find libs (or It wouldn't have to - when you deselect Q, it could just draw your attention to anything that is selected that Q depends on that nothing else depends on. (I would have used "X" instead of "Q" but that might have been even more confusing as a generic definition. (-:) > anything else) that are no longer depended on. There are many such packages, unfortunately. (-: Thanks, though - I hadn't noticed deborphan. -- Mark