Re: APT feature request?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:

> On Saturday 30 April 2005 06:22 pm, Adam D I Kramer wrote:
>>         If, after my xhosting is over, I want to remove Firefox, it'd be
>> great to run "apt-get remove --clutter mozilla-firefox" to remove all the
>> "clutter," or stuff that I only need for Firefox. I would then be asked if
>> I also wanted to remove all the junk, and if there was something I wanted
>> to keep, I'd at least have a list of all the "clutter" so I could remove it
>> directly with "apt-get remove".
>
>   I believe the solution to your problem is to use a high-level package 
> management frontend, such as Synaptic or aptitude, rather than apt-get.
>
>   Daniel

Or stay low tech:

apt-get install debfoster || apt-get install deborphan

MfG
        Goswin