On 09/19/09 07:51, clipka wrote:
> It's not like Linux wouldn't been growing over time, too, if you install
> new software occasionally. For instance, when installing an image

	Barely. Probably depends on your distribution, but on mine (Gentoo) it 
is easy to control.

> processing software package, it may pull in some image library packages
> in addition. I don't think Linux package managers will automatically
> un-install those if you uninstall that image processing package (it
> would be ill-advised, as I might have installed other,
> non-package-managed software that also relies on that library).

	Gentoo usually does, unless it is well known that a package will 
definitely _need_ the old library. Usually, you have to run an 
additional command where it will find all packages that depended on the 
old library, and recompile them against the new library (Gentoo is 
source based).

	The only real part where Gentoo can "grow" if you're careless is when 
you install a package that requires a lot of dependencies. It will 
install the dependencies and that package. When you remove that package, 
the dependencies are still there. So once or twice a year, I have to 
give a special command to figure out all those dependency packages that 
are no longer needed, and uninstall them.

	Don't know how other distros handle that.

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