Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

[Jan Kechel <jan@kechel.de>]

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Michal Čihař wrote:
> deborphan looks simmilar to what you describe.

yeah, similar, also it finds only the leaves, while apt-findremovable
checks which depends have no other rdepends than the specified one

> Anyway if you use
> aptitude instead of apt-get it tracks all that automatically and you
> don't have to guess.

Cool, didn't know that.
But it doesn't work for packages that are already installed via apt-get.
I guess I'll use aptitude instead of apt-get from now on, and try to
cleanup via apt-findremovable :)

Thanks,

Jan
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