Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 20:00:43 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > You can ask aptitude directly: > > > >  aptitude why libfribidi0 > > Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known about this but I > haven't used Debian since over ten years a

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Vasco Costa
First I'd like to apologize for the fact that by mistake I didn't reply to the list (only to the author) in my previous email. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > You can ask aptitude directly: > >  aptitude why libfribidi0 Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known abo

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I am putting this back on d-u; please make sure to reply to the list. ] On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 16:05:17 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 09:55 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Your first hypothesis is most likely the correct one; the "optional > > dependency" that keeps the pa

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:13:51 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > Most of the times 'aptitude remove/purge package' removes ALL the unused > dependencies of the package. > > Sometimes however, even if I issue this command RIGHT after having > installed a package it only removes some of the dependencies