Re: deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

> Hello all.
> 
> My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of 
> what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like 
> to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches that 
> I don't use and uninstall.
> 
> Any recomendations on what program can help me ?
> 
> I'm looking something similar to package manager from KDE.
> 


No what you want but looks to me handy for your case: deborphan

Quoting the man page:

	  deborphan  finds  packages that have no packages depending
	  on them. The default operation is to  search  only  within
	  the  libs  and  oldlibs  sections,  to  hunt  down  unused
	  libraries.

	  If it is invoked with an optional list of  packages,  only
	  the  dependencies  on  those packages will be checked. The
	  results are printed to stdout as if the option --show-deps
	  had  been given. Searching for specific packages will show
	  the package, regardless of its priority. It is possible to
	  specify -, to read a list of packages from standard input.

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    Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>