Hi, I know I'm late for the party but I don't see anyone mentioning aptitude's amazing "mark for auto remove" flag (set by pressing M). By marking packages you know you don't care about with this flag you automatically get them removed when nothing you care about depends on them. Also to get this flag set automatically when you install packages just use aptitude instead of apt-get, e.g. Replace any mention of "apt-get install ..." with "aptitude install...".
Cheers, -Amos On 2/19/10, meryl <gnu...@aromagardens.com.au> wrote: > Thank you Ken, Erik, James & Mike for your replies. > You are a wealth of information! > > non-dependent Samba pkgs removed, restarted and I'm very happy! > > thanks again & cheers, > Meryl > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
