*- On 7 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about "Finding left-over libraries" > Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages > depend on? > > When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are > installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when > I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because of this, I > would like to get a list of packages that no packages depend on (restricted, > for instance, to packages starting with lib). >
Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. There has been/is active discussion on this very subject on the the -devel list. One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at build time when you need to link to the headers. There is a Debian package called cruft that can do some system searching and can give you a very rough idea of file usage. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
