Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs
On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>| Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get
>| as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my
>| system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are
>| not required by any installed package -- they just consume disk space.
>| It would be neat if apt-get remembered what packages were pulled in as
>| dependencies, and offered to remove them when they fall out of the
>| dependency tree.
>
> deborphan reports what libs are not depended on by any packages. You
> can then use that list to remove the ones you really don't want.
> (just think, suppose I have no installed packages using libgtkhtml18,
> but I am writing my own program using it -- I wouldn't want it
> automatically removed, but I would like to know what stuff isn't being
> used)
the --guess-all option is also handy as it will then also look for perl, pytho,
ruby, etc packages you no longer need.
deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean
system.
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