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Re: Orphaned Packages



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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:33:40PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> Greetings,
> 	Is there a(n) [easy] way to cross-reference packages that are installed in
> a system to packages that have been orphaned?  My intent is see if there is
> anything on my system that might need taken up.

deborphan -Pa will give you a listing of all packages with nothing
depending on them, deborphan alone will give you all libraries with
nothing depending on them.

A better way of cleaning out cruft would be to do a deborphan by itself
to remove any orphaned libraries, then run debfoster to take care of
packages and dependancies.  Run debfoster every once in a while to keep
things up to date.  You may consider rebuilding your keepers file after
a while to reconsider old packages no longer used.  Packages are
deborphan and debfoster respectively.

- -- 
Baloo


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