Re: Finding unused packages

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Subject: Re: Finding unused packages
From: Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:30:51 +0000
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On 2002.04.19 14:18 Hall Stevenson wrote:

I believe 'deborphan' only looks for "dependant" type
packages, i.e. if you try and install package "a", but it
requires packages "b". Later, you remove package "a" but
package "b" gets left. It's now likely unused. Running
'deborphan' *should* tell you that this package can be
removed.

I thought the "cruft" package was suited for the purpose of finding unusedpackages.

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