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# Clean mix dependencies

Every once in a while, or when you have removed a dependency from your project, or you have run `mix deps.update`, it is a good practice to clean unused dependencies.

This is more to free disk space.

Here's how to do it:

```shell
mix deps.clean --unlock --unused
```

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