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]

Reply via email to