removing packages and dependencies

[Billy Pollifrone]

On 10/3/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Scott wrote:
> >>
> > The deborphan package can be helpful in this area.
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get install deborphan
> > $ man deborphan
>
> oops.  My bad.  It's been so long since I needed it.  Careful though -
> deborphan usually finds a few packages that it thinks need to be removed
> that shouldn't be - so don't try running it as a cron job :-)
> --

I use aptitude for my package management. It takes out dependencies as
needed when removing a package. Deborphan works well, but remember
that running it may create new orphans, so you'll want to run it a few
times.