Hi! Please count me as another aptitude user who would like to see this feature implemented.
Currently, when I want to do some system clean up, I proceed as follows: * I start aptitude in interactive mode (i.e.: I just run it without command-line arguments) * I examine the "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages" category * This way, I find all the packages that are installed, but not available from any of the configured repositories This is acceptable, but less than convenient. It's a bit slow, because it requires user interaction while the various subcategories are examined. It cannot be automated, AFAIK: I cannot do it inside a script or a cronjob... I would like to see a command-line way to let aptitude spit out the list of "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages" (in the same format as the output of aptitude search something). Something along the lines of: $ aptitude print-obsolete-local i oldpackage - ancient program that does nothing i A ancientlibrary - a library to do this and that i locallycreatedpack - very customized program -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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