Robert P. J. Day wrote: > much thanks to whoever suggested "deborphan" recently to help me > clean out unused libraries. i've been fairly conservative with it, > getting rid of libs a bit at a time and making sure things still run.
> p.s. starting with a server that had just over 600 packages, i'm now > down to 460, with no loss in functionality. hopefully, this will make > that final upgrade as safe as possible. > > p.p.s. i'm starting to like this debian thing more and more. :-) If you like deborphan, you might also like Aptitude's "automatic" packages. If a package is marked as Automatically installed (do this with M), then it will be removed once nothing else depends on it. I find it invaluable for keeping my system pruned on a regular basis. Also, if I'm going through and don't know if I need something, I'll mark it automatic and see if it goes away. - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
