anyone running Kubuntu & vmware, or kubuntu & codeweavers?

[Art Alexion]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 10:50, Derek Broughton wrote:
> The one drawback is that it _doesn't_ know anything about existing
> installed packages.  I got around that when I first started to use aptitude
> by using something like (don't trust me on this - it's a long time ago):
>
> # aptitude markauto ~nlib*
>
> to make all lib* packages "automatic".  There's also some way to do that
> without it actually removing unneeded packages at the time (but I can't
> find the option), so that you can use "unmarkauto" to reset the ones you
> really need before anything drastic happens.

That is good, but how do you know which ones you really need?  deborphan?
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