Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:24:52 -0600, John W Foster wrote:
> 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 " " 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.
Debian has already had a solution for this case -- install roll-you-own tools as debian packages via
checkinstall.
As long as you put correct dependency info in the created debian packages, deborphan should work with
your own packages fine.
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