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Re: Remove unrequired dependencies



On Sunday 12 September 2004 03:40 pm, Tom Wesley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with
> Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as
> dependencies for packages that have since been removed?

You can ID them by using the deborphan package. You can then remove them 
manually or piping the output of deborphan to apt or dpkg. I'll leave the 
scripting of that up to you ;).

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...Rob
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