Actually, what I usually do, about once a month (mebbe 2-3 if I'm lazy), I load up dselect, and set everything to be purged, then (before actually starting the purge!) I go and re-select everything I want to keep -- and of course dselect loads the deps for that, then I purge -- and yes, I've purged nearly 100 packages at one time doing that -- but it *DOES* take a good hour, typically, but it's worth it when I free up 35M :) On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:37:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar, 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Now what happens when later I decide that I no longer need a certain > > package. I remove the package --- but unless I'm very dilligent, I > > Solution: be dilligent > > > don't remove all the packages that this package depends on or > > suggests. So after time, the system builds up quite a number of > > packages which are installed for no good reason. That is, they were > > once installed in order to support some other package, but now that > > package is removed and so they serve no purpose. All they do is take > > up disk space, and for some (like me), space is a premium. > > If space is a premium, don't install stuff you don't need. When you have > finished with a program remove it. And be dilligent. > > -- > I consume, therefore I am > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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