On 2004â12â12 15:53:25-0500, Kevin Horton wrote: > I've added and removed many fink packages over the last few months, > so I knew that I must have many unneeded dependencies of those > packages still installed. So I ran debfoster to clean things up. > After I finished answering the questions about which packages I > wanted to keep, it removed a very large number of packages.
Does that mean that apt didn't verify the list of packages-to-be-removed with you? Here, it says something like: The following packages will be REMOVED: celestia-common* celestia-glut* freeglut3* libatm1* libdv4* libglut3* libhowl0* libsigc++-1.2-5c102* libswfdec0* libswig1.3.21* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 21.1MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > As the text flew by, I noted that it was removing epiphany, but I > couldn't remember being asked if I wanted to keep that package or not. It may be that epiphany depended (perhaps indirectly) on a package that was being removed and debfoster didn't notice. I'm not familiar with fink though, debfoster (as the name implies) was really written for Debian proper. Perhaps there are incompatibilities in the format of the status files, I have no idea. For proper debugging I'd need the status and keepers files before and after running debfoster but I can already guarantee that I will not have time to debug it properly in the next few months. cheers, -- Wessel Dankers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> âThe ATM board has run out of 10 pound notes. We are having a whip round to refill it, care to contribute ?â
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