On Wednesday 16 July 2008 09:10:07 Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > is there any way to cleanup (=remove) packages that have been > installed as a dependency of some other package and are not need > anymore (e.g. the other package has been removed or the dependency has > changed)? > > Thanks, > > Florian > > -
The debfoster package might be what you want. You can use it to look for packages that nothing depends on, mark them for removal, and then remove them. Of course, very often nothing depends on a package with programs that a user would run directly, so some care is needed.
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