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: Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:36:13 +0000
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Try deborphan or, better orphaner

Nuno Magalhães

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