On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > I think the problem with an automated grapage collection is, that if you > use it over and over again you will end up with an empty system or at > least an very basic system... >
Agreed. I guess I'm looking not exactly for automated garbage collection, but for automated dumping of all leaf nodes in the package dependency tree. If I see an end-user type program there (e.g. gimp), then I can make a decision if I use that program or not. If I see an obscure library there (e.g. libxxx-386fromwhoknowswhen), then I can guess that I once used an application program that depended on that library, but I've since dumped the application, leaving the library sitting around.
