On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:01:05PM +0200, Marcus wrote: > Hi, During time you install and remove things on your computer and thus > (when uninstalling a program) leaving libs behind that the program > depends on. > However, now, when the program to which the libs was necessary to is > gone they are ofcouse no longer needed and only takes up diskspace. > Now, is there a easy way to seach out these libs and purge them with > dpkg? If not, wouldn't this be a nice feature you think? > Or is there another easy way to resolve the problem in hand? apt-get install deborphan deborphan will (by default) list out libs that are not used by any installed packages - "orphaned" libraries. Having dpkg remove orphaned libraries by default is probably *not* desirable - only the administrator knows whether he's going to re-install package X in 5 minutes time. And he wouldn't be too please by having to re-download the library that just dissapeared... Just my 2 øre.. > -- > > /* > talos / AINT > www: http://www.aint.nu > email: talos@algonet.se > */ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ?" Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! (By leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de, Felix von Leitner)
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