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Re: A useful tool!



on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:55PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk) wrote:
> 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.

Just curious, what's the relationship, if any, between deborphan and
cruft?

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