On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:01:51PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Notice that deborphan reports only on libraries, not other packages. To > see a full list of undependent packages use deborphan -a. > > With this option you have to manually select packages for removal. > Automatic way is dangarous. I'd also won't do 'deborphan | xargs apt-get > remove -y' since the -y will not let me confirm the removal. But I'd have > added --purge to the command. > > meaning: > deborphan | xargs apt-get --purge remove
Does this work? The reason I added the '-y' was because the input of 'apt-get' is from the pipe. Therefore you get no chance of confirming the operation I'm also not sure I'd default for --purge. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
