How to clean up unnecessary dependencies?

[Ben Vinger]

--- Simon Rönnqvist <simon at iki.fi> wrote:
> Is there a way to easily clean up unnecessary
> dependencies?

Hello

Install and run deborphan.  This will list installed
but unused stuff.  If you are sure nothing essential
is listed by deborphan, you can do:

apt-get --purge remove $(deborphan)

In Woody I used to get  shellutils and textutils
listed by deborphan.  This was wrong, because they are
essential packages.  So to prevent removal of any
essential packages, I used to do:

apt-get --purge remove $(deborphan |grep -v shellutils
|grep -v textutils)


		
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