Pál Csányi wrote:
> 2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe
way of cleaning
>> house so that I can retain those packages that I need
(and want) but can
>> clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?
>
> If you use aptitude, or synaptic then you must to
manually select
> there packages you want to purge. After you have purged those
> packages, you should to purge orphaned packages, I think.
For this you
> may to use 'sudo aptitude purge $(deborphan)' command.
For the inverse operation (select what you want to keep,
discard everything they don't depend on) check out
`debfoster'. The first time you run it, it asks about
roughly every package you've got installed, which is rather
tedious. Thereafter, it uses that info to weed out stuff
you don't want. I suspect that `want' != `need', so
ill-advised choices may hose your system.
Best wishes,
Max Hyre
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Description: Install only wanted Debian packages
debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg. When
first run, it
will ask you which of the installed packages you want to keep
installed.
.
After that, it maintains a list of packages that you want
to have
installed on your system. It uses this list to detect
packages that
have been installed only because other packages depended
on them. If
one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take
notice, and
ask if you want to remove the old package.
.
This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old
(mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used
any more.
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