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?? > Thanks!
Deborphans job is to check for orphaned Debian packages, and to my
understanding that doesn't include packages compiled from source. When
it comes to those you may want to apt-pin them and mark them as
irremovable -- then when you use Deborphan it should skip over the
pinned libs.
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