<html><head></head><body>Makes sense to me: every time you purge something you create new orphans. Nothing wrong with that.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 19, 2014 5:57:23 AM CDT, Wybo <wybo@dekkerdocumenten.nl> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2014-06-19 11:34, James Freer wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Wybo wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> It does not seem to do much more than telling you which packages you can<br /> remove.<br /> I tried to do that, but then you get in a loop, because afterwards, about the<br /> same number of other packages can be removed...<br /><br /> --<br /> Wybo<br /></blockquote> Exactly - just tells you what is an orphan and they can be removed... only<br /> finds orphan files. I don't see how you got in a loop I'm afraid.<br /></blockquote><br />I'll show you what I did on another pc (I have inserten 2 spaces before the <br />output for clarity):<br /><br />$>deborphan<br /> libtbb2:amd64<br /> libots0:amd64<br /> firefox-globalmenu:amd64<br />
libloudmouth1-0:amd64<br /> thunderbird-globalmenu:amd64<br /> libtiffxx0c2:amd64<br /> libgoffice-0.10-10:amd64<br /> libabiword-2.9:amd64<br /> libtidy-0.99-0:amd64<br /> libgtkmathview0c2a:amd64<br /> libkgeomap1:amd64<br /> libkvkontakte1:amd64<br /> libmediawiki1:amd64<br /> libkface-data:all<br /> liblink-grammar4:amd64<br />$>sudo apt-get purge $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log<br />$>deborphan<br /> libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a:amd64<br /> libgoffice-0.10-10-common:all<br /> libtiff4:amd64<br /> libkgeomap-data:all<br /> libwv-1.2-4:amd64<br />$>sudo apt-get purge $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log<br />$>deborphan<br /> libgsf-1-114:amd64<br /> libgdome2-0:amd64<br />$>sudo apt-get purge -y $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log<br />$>deborphan<br /> libgsf-1-common:all<br />$>sudo apt-get purge -y $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log<br />$>deborphan<br />$>sudo apt-get autoremove -y<br /> Reading
package lists... Done<br /> Building dependency tree<br /> Reading state information... Done<br /> The following packages will be REMOVED:<br /> libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libdc1394-22-dev <br />libraw1394-dev libswscale-dev<br /> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br /> After this operation, 14.4 MB disk space will be freed.<br /> (Reading database ... 258736 files and directories currently installed.)<br /> Removing libavformat-dev ...<br /> Removing libavcodec-dev ...<br /> Removing libswscale-dev ...<br /> Removing libavutil-dev ...<br /> Removing libdc1394-22-dev:amd64 ...<br /> Removing libraw1394-dev:amd64 ...<br /> Processing triggers for man-db ...<br />$>deborphan<br />$><br /><br />I'll make a script for this...<br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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