Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Miller
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:21:14AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > >must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > Get hold of the deborphan package from unstable. It should i

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Miller
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > I think the problem with an automated grapage collect

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- > by-package examination, what can be done to detect this po

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I >must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > >Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- >by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential >

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > > > > Short of running dselect (or st

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- > > by-package examination,

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- > by-package examination, what can be done to detect this pote

Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Miller
How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential garbage?