Re: Is there an easy way to restore the system?
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:58:03AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> LOL
> Yes I am running Debian, I like to think of myself as an
> immigrant (sp?) from windows. Little more than a newbie not quite
> a guru. :)
> I am running Woody, fwiw.
Ah, good, ;-) No, I don't think you should mess with cruft, especially
if you consider yourself to be little more than a newbie not quite a
guru. But if you're looking for a package which will allow you to only
keep the packages you want (instead of searching/removing individual
files) you might want to try debfoster. When you run this as root, it
will ask you to keep, remove or purge (also remove configuration files)
a package. It will only ask you about the packages that are newly
installed since the last time you ran debfoster. That means, the first
time it's going to ask you about _everything_. You can also specify to
skip a question (leave it for now, ask me the next time) or get some
info on a package before making a decision.
The good thing about debfoster is that it knows about dependencies. It
won't ask you about libxyz when removing this lib secretly breaks gnome.
It will ask you about gnome. Basically, every package it asks you has no
other packages depending on it and you can safely remove it if you don't
need it any longer.
HTH,
David
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