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Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> I wrote a quitk script, figured it could probably be used, so here ya go:
>   


Why not just do:

dpkg --purge `deborphan`

Or to remove all unused packages, not just libraries, I think use the -a 
switch, but that usually removes things you want to keep.