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,

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 package

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 florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es wrote: You can ask aptitude directly:  aptitude why libfribidi0 Thanks, this is quite

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 ago (I

Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-04 Thread Vasco Costa
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, leaving a few behind (specially for packages with huge dependency