On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:12:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day 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.
Not that fast :-) You may have installed packages that are "unused" but "needed" as a dependency requirement of another packages that you want to keep. If you are not facing space problems, I won't touch anything. What you could do instead is disabling services you are not using at all, that's what I use to do. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.10.29.11.14...@gmail.com
