On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 5:06 AM Mark Hindley <mark@???> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:11:52AM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > What would you recommend?
> >
> > I would recommend using "aptitude why package", substituting in place of
> > "package" the name of the package which you want to understand whether there's
> > a good reason for having it installed.
>
> Try deborphan.
>
> It can do most of the checking for you.
>
> Once you are happy with the packages it identifies
>
> sudo apt autoremove $(deborphan)
>

Hmmmmmm - - - - tried that - - - - was hoping that only the items
mentioned in the
deborphan list would be drawn in - - - nope - - - - there were a bunch of other
files as well.

Is there a way to limit the files that autoremove works on?

(Using individual file removal is a right royal pita!)

TIA