Re: apt-get

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Richard Beri said:
> When I install a program via apt-get, and it installs other support
> packages along with it, and then I choose to remove this program AND  the
> packages that came with it.  Is there anyway to automate the
> removal of this program and its packages instead of removing the
> packages by hand typing them in one by one?  Or if I choose to remove
> this program at a later date and close my xterm, I forget what came  with
> it.


while I've never used it, deborphan looks like it should show you a list
of packages that don't have anything depending on them anymore.

nate