Uninstall dependencies that were installed earlier
After installing a package that requier dependencies with it, when you uninstall the package the dependencies are not uninstalled. Which leads to an ever growing usage of hard disk. Even after having uninstalled all the apps you had installed.
For example you install a kde app. It will install all the necessary kde libs but not uninstall them once you uninstall the app.
But well this is a problem that comes from apt-get of course ... so it may be hard to solve. Just wanted to point it out.
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Thanks for your idea. This is already implemented in the auto-dependency removal spec (implemented in edgy).
The feisty version of gnome-app-install integrates this nicely now. On removal, it will remove all no longer required dependencies of the application.
