Weed unnecessary Debian packages with debfoster

debfoster From the man page: debfoster maintains a list of installed packages that were explicitly requested rather than installed as a dependency. After months of use, I end up with a lot of packages that I don’t need, that I installed to build something, or just to try to solve a specific problem (that I no longer have). But it’s very difficult to keep track of those packages. Of course, we have apt-get autoremove and deborphan, but it’s difficult to whitelist packages in those tools....

September 25, 2023 · 2 min · 253 words · Horacio G. de Oro