On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are | not required by any installed package -- they just consume disk space. | It would be neat if apt-get remembered what packages were pulled in as | dependencies, and offered to remove them when they fall out of the | dependency tree.
deborphan reports what libs are not depended on by any packages. You can then use that list to remove the ones you really don't want. (just think, suppose I have no installed packages using libgtkhtml18, but I am writing my own program using it -- I wouldn't want it automatically removed, but I would like to know what stuff isn't being used) -D -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut!
