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#3 No need for deborphan Posted by Demitsu (84.176.xx.xx) on Tue 20 Sep 2005 at 17:53 deborphan won't make the neccesary decisions for you. Removing aforementioned packages seems to be the right way to go. You just need to make sure you do not need the packages which will break. Things like KDE/GNOME, xfig, fonts and stuff can be removed without ill effects, since they would be useless without X11 anyway. Packages depending on xlibs may be a different matter, though: Some software (like gnuplot) have the nasty habit of uniting Commandline- and Graphical User Interface into a single binary. In that case, you will need to leave xlibs intact, as well as it's dependencies (recursively). I must confess I'm pretty lazy, so aptitudes "Mark as automatically/manually installed" comes in handy, replicating deborphan's functionality. Pressing 'M' (capital) will mark the selected package as 'automatically installed'. Whenever aptitude doesn't detect any package depending on the selected package, it will be removed. For that matter, aptitude automatically marks packages it has installed for dependencies' sake as 'automatically installed'. Only those packages initially deployed on your system by debian-installer are marked as 'manually installed'. After installation of a new Debian system, I usually skim through the package list and correct this by e.g. marking all libraries (regardless if installed or not) as 'manually installed'. I hope this was clear enough to be understandable. PS: Pressing 'b' in aptitude jumps to the next broken yackage. PS2: I know there's a gnuplot-nox package for CLI-only gnuplot. Couldn't come up with a better example ;)

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