Debian dependencies

[phil]

Some time ago I put a spare 6GB drive in my Intel box to try out 
Debian.  Mostly, I like it...enough so that I'm filling up the disk.

Before scratching my main SuSE installation, though, I thought I'd 
clean up some of the packages I'm not using and see what that did to my 
disk space.  Since I don't use sound on this system at all, I figured 
getting rid of sound items that were marked "optional" made sense.  
That idea, however, caused KPackage to recommend the removal of all (or 
most) of KDE, which seemed a little extreme!

How does one better control dependencies so that uninstalling things 
doesn't unravel the universe?

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Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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