On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 23:01 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that
> >i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value
> >whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility that will
> >identify unused libraries but i'm curious about what else i can
> >pinpoint that can be removed.
> When you remove items, you may want to purge them to be "cleaner".
In addition to purging installed packages I would also suggest to purge
already removed packages:
aptitude purge ~c
will take care of that.
Another good way to find unused packages is 'popcon-largest-unused' from
the popularity-contest package.
/me is removing some packages now :)
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