looking at deborphan's output first
Is part of deborphan's job to clean up for sloppy package maintainers'
bad Depends: etc. fields? Or during normal usage does a debian system
accrue useless packages?
In /usr/share/doc/deborphan/README.gz :
REMOVING ALL SUGGESTED PACKAGES
-------------------------------
deborphan -p4 | xargs apt-get -u remove
Never run this command without looking at deborphan's output first!
$ deborphan|xargs|fold -s|sed 's/ $//'
libgal19 gstreamer-vorbis libaiksaurusgtk0 libcapplet0 libcapplet1 libident
libmetakit1 zlibc libcdk4 libmimelib1 libmagick5 libole2-0 libzipios++0
libid3-3.7-13 libgtop1 libwraster2 libqt2-mt libfltk1 libgmime0 libc-client2001
gstreamer-audiofile tix41 libghttp1 tclx8.3 libarts1-audiofile libjack0.38.0-0
libflash0 libsigc++0 libarts1-xine libpgsql2 libnautilus2-2 libgdbmg1
OK, I looked at the output as instructed. Now I run the dangerous command...
Wait, by looking at the output I think he means look for names of
loved ones that are to be spared... etc. Any sure tests? Would I have
linked to one of them if I never compile anything on my own?
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