Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Sat, 18 Dec: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:01:51PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > > Notice that deborphan reports only on libraries, not other packages. To > > see a full list of undependent packages use deborphan -a. > > > > With this option you have to manually select packages for removal. > > Automatic way is dangarous. I'd also won't do 'deborphan | xargs apt-get > > remove -y' since the -y will not let me confirm the removal. But I'd have > > added --purge to the command. > > > > meaning: > > deborphan | xargs apt-get --purge remove > > Does this work? > > The reason I added the '-y' was because the input of 'apt-get' is from > the pipe. Therefore you get no chance of confirming the operation > > I'm also not sure I'd default for --purge.
I would, because that's exactly what I want to do with a library I'm no longer using. What I can tell you is that In 12 years of using Unix and Linux, I have only once found xargs a must. this is how I do it, got an alias in fact: apt-get --purge remove `deborphan --guess-dev --guess-debug --guess-section` the proglem with deborphan's default behavior, btw, is that is looks for independant packages called "lib*", not for actual libraries, and it doesn't look at second tier orphans (i.e. packages that will be marked orphans once the current set is removed). As for the first problem, deborphan always recommends me to remove packages like libjpeg-mmx-progs which I need, and are not libraries. bad choice of package name maybe, but I found no way of pinning those packages away from deborphan other than building a stub package that depends on it and is not a library. sigh. -- Tantric sex god Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
