deborphan and lynx

Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Mon Sep 27 23:58:38 UTC 2010


On Sat 25 Sep 2010 at 22:32:21 +0200, baldyeti wrote:

> I have a system which I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04.
> Every once in a while I like to run deborphan and get
> rid of unneeded packages. But currently deborphan
> generates a longish list of things it thinks the system
> no longer needs; so long I am not sure I can trust it anymore.
> Has anyone noticed something similar?

How about trusting apt-get?

apt-get purge <package>

54 times. An hour's work at most.




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