How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

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Subject: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?
From: Countable Infinity <countableinfinity@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:42:30 +0000
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When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed
libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do:

aptitude purge xfce4-terminal

it does not remove these libs that were installed automatically.

Is there a way to remove these automatically installed packages  when
nothing depends on them any more?

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