Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:24:52AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > 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.
In such case, using aptitude is easiest for checking dependency etc. At lease I manage Ubuntu archive key package manually installed survive by orphaning interactively. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
