Re:Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
by nerdponx on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:02AM
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I'd say that's either 1) outside the scope of the package manager, or 2) mostly-solvable as long as your package manager allows you to specify "extra files created by the application that I do not install but I will want to uninstall."
That's also not what's being asked for here. The basic request is this: track which packages were manually vs automatically installed, and give the user the ability to remove automatically-installed orphans whose manually-installed reverse-dependencies are no longer installed. This is what APT does and it works fine 99% of the time.
Not really. It can remove configuration files etc. it knows about, but it can't know about files later created by the application itself.