On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:10:24AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 30 Apr 2005, Jules Dubois wrote: > > To 'tidy' such a system requires either > > > > * knowing a priori which packages can be purged; > > > > * trial and error at simulating package removal while noting which > > (otherwise desirable or necessary) packages might also be removed; or > > > > * using some tool which shows the dependencies of packages you want, > > and removing anything which doesn't appear in these lists. > > > [snip] > > Currently I just do "wajig purge-orphans" occasionally, which seems to do > the job reliably and safely so far as I can see.
That sounds a lot like orphaner from the deborphan package. I use that occasionally to remove mainly old libraries from my system. It lets you simulate what other packages would be removed that depend on these. A handy companion is debfoster, from package debfoster. It goes through the list of installed packages and asks if you want to keep them installed. It goes like this: ethereal is keeping the following 6 packages installed: ethereal-common gksu libadns1 libadns1-bin libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0 Keep ethereal? [Ynpsiuqx?], [H]elp: H Yes Keep ethereal. [default] No Delete ethereal. Prune Delete ethereal and the packages it is keeping installed. Skip Skip this question. Help Print this message. Info or ? Show information about ethereal. Undo Undo last response. Quit Exit without removing packages. Exit Remove unwanted packages and exit. These two programs help to keep your system tidy. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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