On Debian and Fedora experiences

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Dec 7 20:04:06 UTC 2006


Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta at iki.fi) said: 
> package-cleanup is useful, but --leaves only deals with lib* packages at
> the moment, and --leaves --all tends to list a bit too many packages for
> my taste for my most common use cases.
> 
> Other related things I've found useful:
> - apt-get -D remove foo
> - rpmdev-rmdevelrpms after customizing devpkgs 
>   in /etc/rpmdevtools/rmdevelrpms.conf
> - weekly "diff -u /var/log/rpmpkgs.1 /var/log/rpmpkgs" 

Just install a separate virtual machine for each new app, and when
you're done, destroy the VM.

What?

Bill




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