On 01 May 2005, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > 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. >
Thanks - useful suggestion. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/Debian || blog, book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
