Bug#33991: Automatic library install/deinstall

1999-03-02 Thread Simon Richter
Stephane Bortzmeyer 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

Bug#33991: Automatic library install/deinstall

1999-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.33 Severity: wishlist When I cleaned up my disk of stale files, I found out that I had just about 100MB of unneeded libraries floating around, and thought it would be nice if dpkg could remove all the libraries that are no longer needed together with the package I

Bug#33991: Automatic library install/deinstall

1999-03-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
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