cleaning dependencies

[Erik Heil]

Wait a sec here.  Their is also packages in Debian which do a better job
than deborphan.  Their is such a package which removes a lot of cruft .  .
In fact, its called exactly that.  I don't understand what you wanted to
accomplish by writing this script.

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:56:00 -0600
> From: Tyler Littlefield <tyler at tysdomain.com>
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> Subject: Re: cleaning dependencies
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> it is. deborphan removes stuff that it doesn't see.
>
> Thanks,
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "luke" <speakup at lists.tacticus.com>
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> Subject: Re: cleaning dependencies
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> > 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";
> > > ?>
> > >
> > > Thanks,
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