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Re: Package Garbage Collection



Matt Miller <mmiller@extremezone.com> wrote:
>How do I detect packages on which nothing depends?  I know I
>must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want.
>
>Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package-
>by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential
>garbage?

Get hold of the deborphan package from unstable. It should install
cleanly on a stable system, too.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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