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Re: A useful tool!



mino59@mindspring.com wrote:
>After installing and removing packages, again and again, I am sure I
>have multiple packages which were installed to satisfy dependencies and
>which are currently doing nothing but occupying disk space. Wouldn't it
>be nice if there was software which could look at all your installed
>packages and tell you if there are some which can be safely removed
>without affecting anything else???

Yes, it's called deborphan. You'll find it in testing/unstable, but it
should install cleanly on stable systems.

Cheers,

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



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