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@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[2,5] packages on your system. It determines +which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, +and shows you a list of these packages. It intends to be clone of +deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages. + +It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example: +* after a distribution upgrade +* when you want to suppress packages after some tests + +Several tools are also provided : +* rpmusage - display rpm packages last use date +* rpmdep - display the full dependency of an installed rpm package +* rpmduplicates - find programs with several version installed +* rpmextra - find installed packages not in distribution + +notes : +******* + +For all users : +[1] this rpm package will make rpmorphan work in command line mode. +If you want to use a graphical interface, you will need to install extra +rpm packages : perl-Tk or perl-Curses-UI. + +For Fedora users : +[2] Note that orphan is used in the sense of Debian's deborphan, and +is NOT the same as Fedora orphaned packages which are packages that +have no current maintainer. + +[3] Yum offers a program called 'package-cleanup' which, +called with the '--leaves' option, can show quickly a list of +unused library packages. + +[4] rpmorphan can be speed up by installing the perl-RPM2 rpm package + +For Mandriva users : +[5] the 'urpme --auto-orphans' command show quickly a a list of +unused library packages. + +quick start +*********** +rpmorphan --gui --all + +-- +Eric Gerbier +$Id: rpmorphan-1.11 | Readme | Mon Mar 21 12:08:17 2011 +0000 | gerbier $ |