Debfoster: Remove a package and its dependencies
Debfoster exists to tell you which packages are installed on your machine merely as dependencies for other packages. It then gives you the option of removing the package and its dependencies. It also remembers your previous responses so that it does not ask you about the same packages each time.
Debfoster is most useful to keep your system very lean. However, with today’s large disks, it is more of an aesthetic utility.
The use of Debfoster is best illustrated by a simple example. See the manpage for more details. This example assumes that you already ran Debfoster and told it to keep all your existing packages, otherwise it will ask you about all of them.
I will look at the dependencies for a package called munin, then install it (and its dependencies), then use Debfoster to remove it.
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