[xubuntu-users] Debophan you were talking about James

[James Freer]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Lutz Andersohn wrote:

> Makes sense to me: every time you purge something you create new orphans.
> Nothing wrong with that.

As I understand it that doesn't happen. You don't delete files that are 
dependencies. Apt-get purge I wasn't confident with and that's why they 
introduced autoremove. Apt-get remove (or purge) will just remove the app 
leaving the dependencies behind. Find a package to test with... preferably with 
a load of dependencies. Test apt-get out... autoremove does remove all, a bit 
like aptitude used to although it seems aptitude is no longer the 
principle debian package manager... apt-get is.

I'll have to have a look at aptitude again. It gives far more info and is 
capable of much more than apt-get is... as well as being in 'one place'. Read 
the documentation file on aptitude. I may well start using it again as the 
'software centre' isn't to my liking and it seems synaptic is being left out as 
it's no longer on the DVD iso by default.

The other app I have just thought of which you may like is 'debfoster'. perhaps 
much more to your taste than deborphan.

#james