Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:04:26 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: In an effort to improve system stability without completely reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine is flaky right now, and I don't

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:23:21PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. All of the above will find packages that are not being used. But, packages that are not being used are not loaded and thus

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/4/2012 2:48 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:23:21PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. All of the above will find packages that are not being used. But, packages that

Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Allums
In an effort to improve system stability without completely reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine is flaky right now, and I don't want to commit the time and mental effort to completely

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-03 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 3, 2012 2:04 pm, Mark Allums wrote: In an effort to improve system stability without completely reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine is flaky right now, and I don't