cleaning dependencies

[luke]

Is this something that "apt-get autoremove" won't handle?

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> I wrote a quitk script, figured it could probably be used, so here ya go:
> requirements: php5-cli/php4-cli and deborphan
> #!/usr/bin/php
> <?php
> $list=array();
> exec("deborphan",$list);
> if (count($list)==0)
> {
> echo "There are no packages that deborphan can find to be removed.\n";
> return 0;
> }
> $packages=implode(" ",$list);
> echo "The following ".count($list)." packages will be removed: ".$packages.".\n";
> exec("dpkg --purge ".$packages);
> echo "done\n";
> ?>
> 
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