[TriLUG] URPMI and Emacs

[John F Davis]

Hello

Apt will merrily delete package A, B, and C when you remove C.

JD

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where [Package C] doesn't depend on anything else and nothing else
depends on [Package C] and [Package B].  I believe
you're asking if you use urpmi (actually, the command is urpme,
where the "e" comes from the "-e" you pass to rpm to remove a
package) to delete [Package A], will it also delete packages
[B] and [C].  The answer to this is no.  The cost of figuring
out all those links at run time would be to prohibitively
expensive (I believe the problem may even be NP-complete).
However, if you use urpme to delete [Package C] it will notice
that packages [A] and [B] depend on [C] and ask you if you
would like to delete [A] and [B] too.

I believe apt works in exactly the same way.