Re: Reverse Depends on packages
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
> Is there a tool, or series of commands that'll help me find packages
> that are not depended on anymore in the debian packaging system?
These days I tend to use aptitude as my standard dpkg/APT front-end.
Current aptitude (possibly only the version in unstable) has a feature
to check this on its own. If you type 'M' into aptitude, the package
on the current line will be marked with an 'A' (and possibly also
marked for removal). That mark means that the package has been
Automatically installed, and so it will automatically get removed if
aptitude notices that no other installed packages depend on it. You
likely want to mark everything in the 'libs' section this way, along
with a number of package in the 'interpreters' section, depending on
how you're using your system.
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