[NEW IDEA] Automatic removal of dependencies

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:10 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Mark Rosenstand <mark at borkware.net> wrote:
> > The Debian tool assumes that its users are capable of brain activity.
> 
> Riiight...

Well actually Debian packages have the ability to flag themselves as
essential, thus preventing their removal without dire warnings of doom
and gloom.

i    --\ bash                                              3.1-2
  Description: The GNU Bourne Again SHell
  Essential: yes
  Priority: required

On the other hand:

i    --\ grub                                              0.95+cvs20
  Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
  Priority: optional
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