On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:55:37 +0000, Frank Church wrote: > I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more > or less threatened to wipe out everything on the server. > > apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base
Wow, "gcc" is an important package on every linux system: s...@stt008:~$ apt-cache show gcc-4.2-base | grep -i priority Priority: required s...@stt008:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.2-base Reverse Depends: libstdc++6-4.2-pic libstdc++6-4.2-doc libstdc++6-4.2-dev libstdc++6-4.2-dbg libmudflap0-4.2-dev libgfortran2 libgfortran2-dbg lib32stdc++6-4.2-dbg lib32gfortran2 lib32gfortran2-dbg gobjc-4.2 gobjc-4.2-multilib gobjc++-4.2 gobjc++-4.2-multilib gfortran-4.2 gfortran-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-source gcc-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2-locales g++-4.2 g++-4.2-multilib cpp-4.2 > Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database? (...) > After this operation, 643MB disk space will be freed. You are about to > do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, > do as I say!' Is the norm for base packages, like this. At least the package manager is smart enough to warn you against the operation :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.13.14.33...@gmail.com
