Comment 3 for bug 17297

(In reply to comment #2)
> "Orphaned" finds orphaned libs, but not orphaned packages like python-crap and
> perl-crap. Try deborphan -a and you'll see a lot of stuff that you have to weed
> through, for example:

"deborphan -a" will give a lot of false positives. I don't think it should be
enabled by
default. One option would be to add a configuration parameter to synaptic that
allows to
pass any option(s) to deborphan.

I personally don't think that deborphan is the way forward. I think that adding
support
for automatic dependency tracking is the way forward. That means that any
dependency
that was installed will be removed again if it is no longer needed.

See http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyManagement for details.