deborphan defaults?
In my continuing effort to remove unneeded packages from my system I ran
deborphan and came up with the following list of orphaned libs:
libruby
libdvdread3
liba52-0.7.4
libzzip-0-12
libfaad2-0
libhal0
libxosd2
libdirectfb-0.9-20
libstartup-notification0
libsigc++-1.2-5c102
libpostproc0
libdivxdecore0
libxvidcore4
libdb4.2++
libtar
libdvdnav4
libmpeg2-4
libmyspell3
libdvbpsi3
libneon23
libstlport4.6
libid3tag0
If I am reading the man page correctly, deborphan will consider a
package as NOT being orphaned if it is 'Suggested' or 'Recommended', is
that correct? Many of these packages seem to be audio/video/dvd
related. I don't want xine, for example, to suddenly not behave
correctly, but, since it is installed through apt-get, if any of these
packages were in any way used by it, they would not be reported by
deborphan. Is this correct?
If I run 'apt-cache rdepends' on the above list, I get a lot of
references to openoffice.org-bin (1.1.3) which I have already
uninstalled. (I am using v2.0 from the openoffice.org site). There are
also numerous references to mplayer and vlc, which I am also no longer
using.
I realize that any packages manually installed from a tarball and not by
debian package management tools will not prevent a package from being
shown as an orphan, but I rarely install non debian packages, so...
Can I reasonably assume that it is safe to uninstall these packages?
--
Marc Shapiro
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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
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