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> proposed wheel: that pkg_info have an option to reports 'ideal'
> packages, that is, packages which are not requirements of any other
> packages.

That might be useful, but for another prurpose - to have some
wahy of doing a pkg_delete "recursively" but downwards. I.e. when I
install package X and it depends on Y and Z it will install them. But it
would be really nice if when I deinstall X it would deinstall Y and Z if
nothing else depends on them. This could be done by applying the above
to dependencies of the package and seeing if they can be deleted.

-pcf.

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