Re: dpkg Question
Alexandre Lebrun wrote:
>
> about : listing installed & unneeded packages
>
> Usually I do that with dselect.
> You go through the list (skipping the base package),
> and see every package that is installed.
> I find it convenient for 2 reasons :
>
> -You have a short description for the packages (in case you don't remember)
> -You can safely try to deselect them. deselect tells you if it breaks
> other packages. Then you hit 'x' and keep the package.
>
> But that's slow and will take more than an hour.
>
Thanks for the reply, I may do just that.
Jim
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