making deborphan obsolete?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:25:01PM -0400, Chris Peterman wrote:
> Maybe I was thinking DebFoster then? I always mix those up...

Ahhhh ... see 'apt-cache show debfoster' (below). It seems
to do just what you say. Good to know; I didn't know about
it.


Package: debfoster
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Ivo Timmermans <ivo at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.5-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Recommends: apt
Filename: pool/main/d/debfoster/debfoster_2.5-4_i386.deb
Size: 33398
MD5sum: 728b87acd366d256e296bdd1f4b6fad8
Description: Install only wanted Debian packages
 debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg.  When first run, it
 will ask you which of the installed packages you want to keep
 installed.
 .
 After that, it maintains a list of packages that you want to have
 installed on your system.  It uses this list to detect packages that
 have been installed only because other packages depended on them.  If
 one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take notice, and
 ask if you want to remove the old package.
 .
 This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old
 (mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used any more.


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