Re: Package Garbage Collection
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:21:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> >
> Get hold of the deborphan package from unstable. It should install
> cleanly on a stable system, too.
Perfect. Thanks.
I installed this, ran it with the default options, and removed the listed
packages. I repeated this until no more packages were listed. Several
unused libs were cleaned out, and I feel I now have a better handle on my
system.
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