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Old 10th June 2011
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
What is niceR about apt-get?
When you install a package all of its dependencies are also installed.

If you uninstall that package, you have then all these useless dependencies on the disk.

On debian, you can de-install such "stale" dependencies with one command. You can't do that with pkgsrc or ports, can you?
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