In my opinion, the only real effort that is required to keep Debian clean is to remember to do the updates regularly, and dist-upgrade semi-regularly. If you g

In my opinion, the only real effort that is required to keep Debian clean is to remember to do the updates regularly, and dist-upgrade semi-regularly. If you get far behind, then there are going to be headaches, but if you stay relatively current as you move along with new updates, and upgrades to packages, Debian is very smooth sailing. So smooth that I instantly thought to myself "huh, who needs spring-cleaning? My debian-systems pretty much keep themselves clean all along.." and was subsequently surprised about how Arch Linux seems to do things .. (Nevertheless, its also prompted me to put "try Arch out" on the TODO list for the next down-time period..)