On Mon, September 3, 2012 2:04 pm, Mark Allums wrote: > In an effort to improve system stability without completely > reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove > from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine > is flaky right now, and I don't want to commit the time and mental > effort to completely nuke from orbit [it's the only way to be sure]. > Also, I'd rather not rely on automated tools, especially, but not > necessarily only, apt-get autoremove. I realize I haven't given you > specifics yet, but I'm looking at where best to start, besides just > removing unused packages. Systemic cruft in particular, e.g., daemons > or services loaded that are redundant or silly, such as tracker. > > Any ideas?
Hello Mark, I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. Regards, Weaver. -- "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d7913b3be1500eab75b736c991aa4375.squir...@fruiteater.riseup.net
