about deborphan am i havin da same sentiment plus hard time
tryna interpret da deborphan decimals due 2 my insufficient
rtfm of manpages.debian.org/bookworm/deborphan/deborphan.1.en.html
(debian)czyborra@localhost:~$ sudo aptitude install deborphan
[…] Unpacking dialog (1.3-20190211-1) ... Setting up
gettext-base (0.19.8.1-9) ... Setting up dialog
(1.3-20190211-1) ... Setting up deborphan (1.7.31) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ... Processing
triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10) ...
(debian)czyborra@localhost:~$ deborphan --show-section
--show-size --all-packages | sort -n
20 main/x11 i3:amd64
21 main/metapackages init:amd64
21 main/utils xtitle:all
26 main/perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl:all
50 main/perl libtext-iconv-perl:amd64
51 main/x11 xsel:amd64
96 main/admin ncdu:amd64
100 main/net iputils-ping:amd64
103 main/admin command-not-found:all
109 main/x11 xbindkeys:amd64
152 main/oldlibs apt-transport-https:all
170 main/libdevel libspeexdsp-dev:amd64
184 main/x11 xautomation:amd64
200 main/python python3-cffi-backend:amd64
217 main/admin ifupdown:amd64
217 main/utils debian-goodies:all
255 main/devel adb:amd64
347 main/admin deborphan:amd64
533 main/libdevel libasound2-dev:amd64
690 main/python python3-pip:all
729 main/libdevel libxi-dev:amd64
729 main/net rsync:amd64
1005 main/utils cpio:amd64
1812 main/admin rsyslog:amd64
1967 main/video ffmpeg:amd64
2216 main/editors nano:amd64
2569 main/net iptables:amd64
3567 main/gnome dmz-cursor-theme:all
3787 main/admin sudo:amd64
8288 main/admin udev:amd64
what would i want to sudo aptitude purge here to free 1 gig?
2025-03-06[Thu]15:10 🦓 read that
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
deborphan --show-section --show-size --all-packages | sort -n
2025-03-05[Wed]23:21 David Wright wrote
Bear in mind when you use --all-packages that, while removing
packages listed will make the Debian system happy about being
smaller, the list will likely contain many of the packages
that make the system worth operating at all (unless you're
getting all your functionality from flatpaks and suchlike,
