On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 01:57 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY > > remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use > > and do NOT want to remove libs that they require. Any suggestions?? > > If you are asking question like this, it is not good idea to mix archive > unless they are in synch and supported. > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#packagesfrommixesourceofarchives > > Osamu Thanks Osamu: as usual, your insight is spot on:The system I just upgraded to Lenny started out as a woody install some years ago and this is my firts effort to streamline the system. May be my last!!!:_)
I am aware that this is not usually considered a good practice. However debian as vast as it is does not provide software that meets all my needs. I therefore sometimes either "roll my own" or use pre-compiled binaries that are designed to be installed from the basic tarball. An example of these is BRL-CAD and VARKON cad (old .debs). I also use script driven apps such as Kompozer, MoneyDance, Gallery2 and the tarball setup of Webmin as I prefer them, & with the exception of webmin there are currently there are no debian maintainers to make these all available, or in some case they are not "free" apps but stuff I pay for. They install somes libs each time they are upgraded or installed. My question is more specifically about the capabilities of GTKOrphan and deborphan: Do these apps ONLY find orphaned libs from debian packages or do they somehow locate libs that are NOT a dependency of a debian package. If the latter is the case I can not use these to get rid of the 200 or so libs (mostly java) that the deborphan app located. I will have to continue doing it by checking individual dependencies of all packages from all the sources that I use. I have one vote fron John Hasler saying they only find .deb libs anyone else got any ideas. BTW; He ain't no rookie either:=) -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
