my recipe for leaner is more about CPU and RAM and less about diskstorage. One of the first things I recommend is aptitude over apt-get and that manages your s

my recipe for leaner is more about CPU and RAM and less about diskstorage. One of the first things I recommend is aptitude over apt-get and that manages your stale packages much better. (for e.g. aptitude will offer to remove unused packages each time you remove an installed package, whereas apt-get will only do that if explicitly asked to with apt-get autoremove.)