Package dependency question (on SuSE-10.2)

[Charles G Montgomery]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 06:41, you wrote:
> On 02/20/2007 01:37 AM,

in some time zone or other   ;-)

> Charles G Montgomery wrote:
> > The new version of Debian's apt will have the capability,
> > already present in aptitude, of remembering which packages were
> > installed only as dependencies of something else and removing
> > them when they're no longer needed.  But that's Debian.  ;-)
> >
> > hth   cgm
>
> Does Ubuntu also have this facility??
>
I'm afraid I couldn't tell you about Ubuntu.  The Debian version is 
apt 0.7.0, which is only in the "experimental" section, not even 
in "unstable" yet.  (I run "testing" myself, and use dselect rather 
than aptitude.)  It will probably get to Ubuntu at some point, but 
I don't know when.

cheers   cgm