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

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) [Tue, Oct 03 2006, 05:11:46PM]:
> Jan Kechel:
> 
> > Michal Čihař wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> You can mark all packages as installed automatically (this will mark
> them for removal), then mark all essential and base ones as installed
> manually (this will keep them and their dependencies), and then work
> your way through the rest, starting with the most obvious ones (i.e.,
> mark xserver-xorg and your DE as installed manually, this will keep
> a lot of packages). When you’re finished with the list, everything
> not needed will be marked for removal.

Aha... Ok... And how many cobolds do you need to kill to win that game? (SCNR)

Eduard.

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