apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, I hope this is the right mailinglist for this. I always had the problem, that if I removed a package via apt-get remove, that there were still other packages that only were installed because of that package. I wrote a little perl-script: NAME apt-findremovable - tries to find out which packages might be installed only because of a specified one. SYNOPSIS $ apt-findremovable DESCRIPTION we use 'apt-cache depends' and 'apt-cache rdepends' to find out which packages might be installed only because of the specified one. EXAMPLE $ ./apt-findremovable texlive ... Only texlive depends on the following installed packages: perl-tk texlive-doc-en texlive-context texlive-metapost The v0.1 release can downloaded via: http://prevalent-digest.de/apt-findremovable/apt-findremovable-0.1.tar.bz2 So my questions are: Is there a mailinglist special for apt-tools? Does a tool like this already exist? Would alioth.debian.org be the right place for this? cu, Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFInAZ58nJkn8diosRA1S7AKC44GtaofheGWG7Z0NiQuB6FhVzwACgxtPb wDnn3RHyi4sypymI+1fdh4s= =SC+e -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Michal Čihař wrote: > deborphan looks simmilar to what you describe. yeah, similar, also it finds only the leaves, while apt-findremovable checks which depends have no other rdepends than the specified one > Anyway if you use > aptitude instead of apt-get it tracks all that automatically and you > don't have to guess. Cool, didn't know that. But it doesn't work for packages that are already installed via apt-get. I guess I'll use aptitude instead of apt-get from now on, and try to cleanup via apt-findremovable :) Thanks, Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFInmO58nJkn8diosRAybpAKDArd/N2vryvcUGD9GyqWA176ndXgCfUCgC SPUejm4uyweGVWTh2ifOWtY= =A84s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > Some of us are partial to apt-get and would appreciate > apt-findremovable. cool :) I just released v0.2: http://prevalent-digest.de/apt-findremovable/ .. it's getting slower (takes about 1min to complete), but now it re-checks, if apt-cache rdepends results really depend on that package, or if they only suggest/recommend it. now the result on my system for 'apt-findremovable texlive' looks like this: - -- cut -- Only texlive really depends on the following installed packages: perl-tk texlive-doc-en tex-common texlive-latex-base texlive-base texlive-doc-base libxml-parser-perl texlive-base-bin texlive-metapost texlive-pdfetex libpoppler0c2 texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-context - -- end cut -- have fun trying it. (manually i would never have found that e.g. perl-tk and libpoppler0c2 is not used by anything else .. ) cu, Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFIolb58nJkn8diosRAyynAKCN83Brnot6TaIUc04R8hYTxShdtACeL/9t BAoCeFmD4mIFc0elsg2Dz60= =7Oxp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-findremovable v0.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> have fun trying it. > > Thanks. Is a single perl script worth packaging, though? since v0.4 its even seems to be working correctly :) http://prevalent-digest.de/apt-findremovable/ I guess that's also the final version (at least until somebody finds a bug or sends me a patch/feature request). cu, Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFItT858nJkn8diosRA1MaAJ92hCM5SsoJpn5x3P/LJc5367BUPQCfT1zc y0XrN4krYCbLMzqgItWfJA8= =74TP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > aptitude has this > apt has that > aptitude can't do that > apt can't do this > [...] .. is this always here like this? Isn't it just that some prefer apt and some aptitude, and that of course those that prefer aptitude think that apt-findremovable is obsolete, and that those that prefer apt not? I hope i helped the apt-users, at least it won't hurt the aptitude users. ack? jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFI60u58nJkn8diosRA0RHAJ9VDAS5Mc/ynHXy23BOv1Shny7vwQCfXcQK AlLzmeRT4J04KkS6DxdsRF8= =ClTm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Brian May wrote: >>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kechel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jan> I wrote a little perl-script: > > How does this compare with deborphan? > deborphan shows you the 'leave' packages of your dependency-tree apt-findremovable checks for a given leave what else can be removed if you removed that leave .. anyway, it's obsolete, - - 'aptitude' is supposed to do the same, and - - 'debfoster' is exactly the same, only does it this for all packages automatically and asks you through it like an assistant I love debfoster now :) cu, Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFJMbh58nJkn8diosRA0EyAJ9KNVsjuSRJBMscIM1Qx33eulbb5wCgm3th vpp7VRltx9bCVPLIwDZkgMY= =bYlZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)
Peter Palfrader wrote: > Ever tried the simulate button in the orphaner frontend? I don't know > apt-findremovable's UI but I very much like orphaner's. But then I > might be just slightly biased. :) don't care about apt-findremovable anymore, debfoster does it's job much better :) > Peter Jan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
