Re: Useful new package management tool
From: Alex Malinovich (demonbane_at_the-love-shack.net)
Date: 03/31/04
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:02:00 -0600
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:49 +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 'ellow,
>
> I've recently subscribed to this list as I wanted to let you all know
> about a helpful little utility that a friend of mine and I have written.
>
> It is a Perl script that works out which packages on your system are not
> being used and can be safely removed. This puts an end to the disk
> creep experienced by an often dist-upgraded Debian box.
--snip--
It's always good to see more new tools for Debian. But have you checked
out deborphan at all? It does pretty much the same thing that your
script does. If your script has advantages over the functions provided
by deborphan, I'd be very interested to hear them. If you're just
re-inventing the wheel for your own amusement, then kudos to you. :) I
did the same thing when I wrote a debian mirroring script that basically
does the same thing as debmirror only using rsync. :)
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