Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

[Stephen Quinney <stephen@jadevine.org.uk>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
> > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my
> > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure
> > a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it.
> > Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email
> > a status report.
> > 
> > Is there a program already in existence that can do the check?
> 
> You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package.  Check out rc-check
> while you're at it.  Both are cronable.
> 

I think you mean wnpp-alert and rc-alert (at least that's what they
seem to be called on my sid machine).

Stephen