Gerard Robin schrieb:
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: deborphan
Mail-Followup-To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:34:10PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
can I remove merely this packages ?
That depends. Do you use any of them?
it is why I asked advices, by example: if I remove libc6-i386 and after
that I install a package x.deb which needs it, will libc6-i386 be
reinstalled as dependency of the package x.deb ?
Yes, the package wouldn't be able to install faultlessly if the
dependencies weren't met, that's the whole point.
I've never used deborphan but if it finds that these packages aren't
used anymore than you can safely remove them, because:
a.) Debian packages are commonly well tested, so generally every package
is expected to do what it should. (Sounds pretty superficial, but imho
problems with software in debian arise mostly from the fact that it was
not installed in a debian way or the user doesn't know the software well
enough to configure it the way he wants to use it)
b.) Its a package dealing with a package format that originated from and
was developed for debian, so if a. is to be untrue 20% of the time then
this will make the probability of a being untrue >1% (I sense this is
gonna turn out to be a comical coders-short ;))
c.) I don't know exactly how deporphan works but my guess is that it
parses the dpkg-database for all the packages installed, reads their
dependencies and then rules out which packages are installed but are
neither marked as having been manually installed nor are being depended
upon by any of the other packages installed. Pretty easy I'd say. And as
an additional debugger it gives you (the user) a list of all the
packages that match the above named criteria. So, essentially the chance
of wrecking your system by uninstalling the suggested packages should be
pretty low. ( I know I'm one sardonic bastard, but I like it, AND this
is my honest opinion)
Cheerio, Roman.
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