Re: Finding left-over libraries

[Keith Harbaugh <harbaugh@math.georgetown.edu>]

On Tue, 1999-12-07 at 23:13:32 +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages
> depend on?
> 
> When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are
> installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when
> I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because of this, I
> would like to get a list of packages that no packages depend on (restricted,
> for instance, to packages starting with lib).

You might want to check out the package pkg-order,
in particular, its programs pkg-deptree and pkg-revdeps.

Keith


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