Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Hans
> By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their > configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that > it did just that on your system. > > Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable > control group[2] :-) > > [1] ht

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:06:03PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Peter Ludikovsky writes: > > > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that > > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the > > only

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Peter Ludikovsky writes: > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the > only one with dependencies. > > Regards. > /peter aptitude said it was just removing , not those packages that were installed

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the only one with dependencies. Regards. /peter On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 11:49:20 CET schrieb Rodolfo Medina: > Nicolas George writes: > > Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > Same result: none of them. > > Rodolfo Try aptitude purge `deborphan --guess-all` But look, what is going to be deinstalled. In rare

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Nicolas George writes: > Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install >> ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were >> installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' >> b

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install > ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were > installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' but > in the output of `deborphan'

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:07:35 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: ... > 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. Just as a miscellaneous reference poi

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
fslint and cruft are also helpful in keeping a system clean, by finding out duplicate files, broken links, etc. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Ekstrand
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,

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 05:00:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the "minimal" part appears to be correct. it's a back-room server, > ssh-accessible only, no X. i've been removing things to the point > where i'm now down below 450 packages. i'm a big believer in > simplicity. You might want to disable

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. > > but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch > > system is listed as an orphan. > > > > coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
Robert P. J. Day wrote: theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch system is listed as an orphan. coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of the HAL layer as fairly fundamental, but i guess i've stripp

Re: deborphan

2007-02-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > supposedly gives you similar functionality. oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't be pushed into using aptitude ... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROT

Re: deborphan

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Pobega
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:01:08PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: deborphan

2007-02-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:01:08PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: deborphan Mail-Followu

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:01:08PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: deborphan > >Mai

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge On 2/3/07, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. dist: etch. deborphan gives: libgmp3c2 libpisync0 libopal-2.2.0 libident libtextwrap1 liblzo2-2 libmagick9 libc6-i386 libieee1284-3 libosp5 libpt-plugins-v4l libgnom

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 15:34 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. > dist: etch. > > deborphan gives: > > libgmp3c2 > libpisync0 > libopal-2.2.0 > libident > libtextwrap1 > liblzo2-2 > libmagick9 > libc6-i386 > libieee1284-3 > libosp5 > libpt-plugins-v4l > li

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. dist: etch. deborphan gives: and mine gives: liblzo2-2 libttf-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libdivxdecore0 libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libstdc++5 libgnutls11 libldap-2.3-0 which is funny because I just installed the Sid system from scratch

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Gerard Robin schrieb: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: deborphan Mail-Followup-To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, On Sat,

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: deborphan Mail-Followup-To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:3

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/02/07 15:34), Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. > dist: etch. > > deborphan gives: > > libgmp3c2 > libpisync0 > libopal-2.2.0 > libident > libtextwrap1 > liblzo2-2 > libmagick9 > libc6-i386 > libieee1284-3 > libosp5 > libpt-plugins-v4l > libgnome-pilot2

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:34:10PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > can I remove merely this packages ? > That depends. Do you use any of them? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: deborphan defaults?

2006-05-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Can I reasonably assume that it is safe to uninstall these packages? I normally believe in deborphan's output, so I'd say it is. However, if you want to be sure, just check the rdepends. Most probably you'll see some package you installed sometime, but then later removed it. I

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Adam Scriven
At 11:23 2000/07/29 -0600, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > [...] > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > try newer 2.2.17pre's. I've got th

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: > > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > [...] > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > try newer 2.2.17pre's. Another data point... When I installed 2.2.17pr

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Henry! [Henry] > > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > > > Segmentation fault [me] > > deborphan prior to 0.1.11-3 had big mem leaks [Henry] > No go :-[ Now I'm getting those error messages immediately after the > fetch. Stopped the process with CTRL-C and tried dpkg --pur

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... [...] > Any ideas or suggestions? try newer 2.2.17pre's. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypt

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Henry White
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:51:41PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi Henry! > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Henry White wrote: > > > After the latest apt-get update/upgrade/check (using sources woody and > > kernel 2.2.17) when i ran deborphan I got an on screen message > > > >VM: do_try_t

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Henry! On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Henry White wrote: > After the latest apt-get update/upgrade/check (using sources woody and > kernel 2.2.17) when i ran deborphan I got an on screen message > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > Segmentation fault > > Any ideas or suggesti