Re: Package Garbage Collection
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Martin Fluch wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote:
> >
> > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I
> > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want.
> > >
> > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package-
> > > by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential
> > > garbage?
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/cruft.html
But this program just looks for files which are present, but shouldn't
(according to the package management system), and for files, which should
be present, but are missing (according to the package management system),
which is a little bit different thing...
Martin
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