How to use "deborphan" and "debfoster"?

[Derek Broughton]

Ali Milis wrote:

>> it is hard to
>> improve on the man pages when it comes to describing them :)
> 
> Well, I have got an idea on how to use "orphaner"; but still I have
> no idea on how to use "deborphan". I guess, may be
> "apt-get remove `deborphan`" ?

I've done that - it has a bad habit of removing lib* packages that I really
need (right now, classpath, libdvdcss2, libc6-i686 - admittedly not really
_necessary_ - and, really oddly, xlibs-data).

otoh, you can use aptitude instead of either deborphan & debfoster, and
it'll handle dependencies much better.
-- 
derek