[plug] Debian Package Management

[Onno Benschop]

Russell Steicke wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:01:18PM +0930, Onno Benschop wrote:
>  
>
>>So, how are you supposed to deal with the following scenario:
>>
>>   apt-get install a
>>   => a requires b and c, so they get installed
>>
>>   apt-get --purge remove a
>>   => a gets removed, but b and c are still lying around
>>    
>>
>
>deborphan (yes, another package) can help with some of this.
>
>  Description: Find orphaned libraries
>   deborphan finds "orphaned" packages on your system.
>   It determines which packages have no other packages
>   depending on their installation, and shows you a list of
>   these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries,
>   but it can be used on packages in all sections.
>  
>
Yeah, I'm familiar with it, I was hoping for something a little more 
sophisticated, perhaps I'm not using deborphan properly...

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