peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Servis: > > > Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. > > That's too bad. > > > One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for > > development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at > > build time when you need to link to the headers. > > Yeah, well, all I want is a *report* on what is installed that nothing > depends on. I don't want it to automatically purge everything for me... > > > There is a Debian package called cruft that can do some system searching > > and can give you a very rough idea of file usage. > > I couldn't get it to work.
I believe the current version in potato is broken (take a look at the bug reports for it). However, I used it on my slink system some time ago and it is very helpful in finding files and such on your system that aren't associated with a package, but I don't believe it'll find packages without dependents, at least from reading the documentation, and using my poor memory, I don't get that impression. I do agree with you, it'd be nice to have such a utility. Gary
