Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Chance Platt wrote: > > Loris Boillet wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed > > > packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other > > > words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. > > > > deborphan --all-packages > > Well, I must say that 'deborphan -a' is only partially successful, > shows quite a few packages that I have no idea where they came from.
For you maybe but that was a perfect answer for the original question that Loris asked. $ man deborphan NAME deborphan -- Orphaned package finder DESCRIPTION 'deborphan' finds packages that have no packages depending on them. > The only way I know how to do this is to keep a script uptodate that > is used to install the system you have from scratch. When you freshly install a new system you will almost certainly see quite a few packages that you have no idea how they arrived on the system. A few of the d-i steps install entire sections of programs. See "man tasksel" for more information on at least part of it. $ tasksel --list-tasks $ for t in $(tasksel --list-tasks | awk '$1=="i"{print$2}'); do tasksel --task-packages $t; done Bob
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