You can you deborphan. You can get the unnecessary packages.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>wrote: > > just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that > i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value > whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility that will > identify unused libraries but i'm curious about what else i can > pinpoint that can be removed. > > this system is a web/mail server and, since its IP address is > assigned statically and another system is responsible for all DNS/DHCP > functionality internally, i conclude that i can remove the > dhcp-related packages. that's just one example. > > any utilities that can help out in this regard? thanks. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.1010290608040.4...@localhost6.localdomain6 > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654
