Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Chance Platt wrote:
> > Loris Boillet wrote:
> > > Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed
> > > packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other
> > > words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed.
> >
> > deborphan --all-packages
>
> Well, I must say that 'deborphan -a' is only partially successful,
> shows quite a few packages that I have no idea where they came from.
For you maybe but that was a perfect answer for the original question
that Loris asked.
$ man deborphan
NAME
deborphan -- Orphaned package finder
DESCRIPTION
'deborphan' finds packages that have no packages depending on them.
> The only way I know how to do this is to keep a script uptodate that
> is used to install the system you have from scratch.
When you freshly install a new system you will almost certainly see
quite a few packages that you have no idea how they arrived on the
system. A few of the d-i steps install entire sections of programs.
See "man tasksel" for more information on at least part of it.
$ tasksel --list-tasks
$ for t in $(tasksel --list-tasks | awk '$1=="i"{print$2}'); do tasksel --task-packages $t; done
Bob
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