Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages (Linux.com)

Posted Dec 1, 2006 10:01 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages (Linux.com) by proski
Parent article: Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages (Linux.com)

> prune: that is, remove not only the package but all others that depend
on it
Yeah, actually, when I read this I thought: "hey, if you remove a package
you will always remove all others that depend on it..." (lest you will be
with a lot of dangling-referencing packages installed)

Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages (Linux.com)

Posted Dec 1, 2006 17:24 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

From http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/:

In the past, Byfield has been a university English instructor, a technical writer, a product manager, a director of marketing and communications, a developmental editor, and a consultant in communications, marketing, and design. When dealing with technological issues, Byfield makes a hands-on comprehension of the technology his first priority.

And yet he cannot grasp the concept of dependency between packages!