dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get > | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my > | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are > | not required by any installed package -- they just consume disk space. > | It would be neat if apt-get remembered what packages were pulled in as > | dependencies, and offered to remove them when they fall out of the > | dependency tree. > > deborphan reports what libs are not depended on by any packages. You > can then use that list to remove the ones you really don't want. > (just think, suppose I have no installed packages using libgtkhtml18, > but I am writing my own program using it -- I wouldn't want it > automatically removed, but I would like to know what stuff isn't being > used)
Also check out debfoster. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
