Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 01:57 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote:
> > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the
> > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY
> > remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use
> > and do NOT want to remove libs that they require. Any suggestions??
>
> If you are asking question like this, it is not good idea to mix archive
> unless they are in synch and supported.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#packagesfrommixesourceofarchives
>
> Osamu
Thanks Osamu: as usual, your insight is spot on:The system I just
upgraded to Lenny started out as a woody install some years ago and this
is my firts effort to streamline the system. May be my last!!!:_)
I am aware that this is not usually considered a good practice. However
debian as vast as it is does not provide software that meets all my
needs. I therefore sometimes either "roll my own" or use pre-compiled
binaries that are designed to be installed from the basic tarball. An
example of these is BRL-CAD and VARKON cad (old .debs). I also use
script driven apps such as Kompozer, MoneyDance, Gallery2 and the
tarball setup of Webmin as I prefer them, & with the exception of webmin
there are currently there are no debian maintainers to make these all
available, or in some case they are not "free" apps but stuff I pay for.
They install somes libs each time they are upgraded or installed.
My question is more specifically about the capabilities of GTKOrphan and
deborphan: Do these apps ONLY find orphaned libs from debian packages or
do they somehow locate libs that are NOT a dependency of a debian
package. If the latter is the case I can not use these to get rid of the
200 or so libs (mostly java) that the deborphan app located. I will have
to continue doing it by checking individual dependencies of all packages
from all the sources that I use.
I have one vote fron John Hasler saying they only find .deb libs anyone
else got any ideas. BTW; He ain't no rookie either:=)
--
John W. Foster
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