Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
| Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get
| as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my
| system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are
| not required by any installed package -- they just consume disk space.
| It would be neat if apt-get remembered what packages were pulled in as
| dependencies, and offered to remove them when they fall out of the
| dependency tree.
deborphan reports what libs are not depended on by any packages. You
can then use that list to remove the ones you really don't want.
(just think, suppose I have no installed packages using libgtkhtml18,
but I am writing my own program using it -- I wouldn't want it
automatically removed, but I would like to know what stuff isn't being
used)
-D
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