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#17
Originally Posted by noobmonkey View Post
Not heard off it - i'm assuming this is a debian app? - if there is already something that does this it should really be promoted and be given a user friendly name?
yes deborphan is a debian tool to point out unused and undepended packages - orphaned .deb's


man deborphan gives
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DESCRIPTION
deborphan  finds  packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries.