> 
> All right, thank you for the information. I do not know however
> whether I'll use debfoster again soon, because although I could
> solve my problem quite easily after all, this game me a fright! :)
> 

Unfortunately it seems that all the tools like this (debfoster,
deborphan...) are not foolproof and can lead to unfortunately cases
like this.  Probably the reason is that some of the installed packages
don't have the correct dependencies or something.  I think that these
programs have to be used very carefully... you should probably look at
their suggestions and then do some investigation to make sure that the
proposed changes are safe.

I also like to have a relatively "clean" system, but usually keeping
unneeded packages causes no problems, so it's safer to leave things
installed if in doubt.

Scott


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