Removing packages in Zenwalk
 

If I uninstall some package using xnetpkg, will it also remove its dependencies which are not needed by any other package? Can I do similar operation with netpkg? How can I otherwise find and remove orphan packages on a Zenwalk system? Thanks for your guidance.

for an installed package : right-click "Select installed dependencies"

It's up to you to check for any other installed package which would need them :)

JP

Can I find orphan library packages (those which are not needed by any other package) on a Zenwalk installation?

I can easily add the feature :)

Netpkg used to have this feature, and I removed it because it's unreliable : some packages are needed by no other package, but if you remove them : system is dead.

jp

It would be much better to have this feature there with a warning rather than not having it at all. Did your program work by checking dependencies of installed packages or by checking requirements listed in package detail files?

by checking requirements in package dep files, with fallback to an embedded global database.

Scanning the system for actual libraries deps takes too long to be performed each time a package is selected (would make netpkg unusable).

JP