Retired

Reason for Retirement: The metadat is not available for this kind of
functionality. Please confirm if this is still a problem in the latest
version of Smart.

Please reopen this issue in the new bugtracker if it is still an issue.
New Bugtracker : http://bugs.launchpad.net/smart
further details:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration.

Of course there are some cases where the user want to keep the pkg without any 
dependencie.
That's why I write "suggest" and not automaticaly remove.
But in most cases (imagine unneeded libs) the user would remove this pkgs.

What should be done in situations where the dependencies are independent 
programs?
For example, qdvdauthor requires MPlayer. If I remove qdvdauthor and no other 
package has MPlayer for dependency Smart should suggest to remove MPlayer? 
MPlayer is a full independent program that the user probably will want to 
conserve.

E.g. if you remove a package which requires mono, smart should suggest to remove
mono if mono is not needed by any other installed package.
By this behaviour it is easier to keep the system clean of orphaned packages.
(Aptitude works this way too)