Deinstall package *INCLUDING* all dependencies

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 00:30:38 UTC 2006


On 7/8/06, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
>
> deborphan is conservative, in that it only removes packages
> whose names begin with 'lib', but it gets you most of the
> way to cleanliness. And I guess aptitude will help from now
> on.

I'd like to confirm the conservatism of deborphan because when I run
it, I get this:

cbell at circe:~$ deborphan
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
cbell at circe:~$

None of these start with lib and while I think it'd be great to remove
libs that nothing depends on, but it's looking like deborphan (as I
see here, run without any "human eyes paying attention") will
eventually peel off every package on the machine like an onion.

-- 
Chris

"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford.  I
trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."




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