* Michael Schierl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061229 00:58]: > Michael Prokop schrieb: > > * T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061228 00:15]:
> >> The reason that I'm asking is that after 'aptitude purge evms', > >> I found the libevms-2.5 is still in the system. > > Run 'deborphan' to remove unnecessary packages from your system. > I guess the point "T" wants to make is that aptitude tracks which > packages have been installed manually and which have been installed > automatically (i. e. to fulfill dependencies). Automatically installed > packages will be uninstalled as soon as they are no longer needed. I'm aware of the fact. :) > You can change this flag manually if you want to: Usually I select > the "libs" category in aptitude and press "M" to mark all packages > in it as autoMatically installed. I don't know how this can be > done (for the whole category) on the command line. Ah, thanks for the hint. (I usually don't use the graphical interface of aptitude but only the cmdline version.) > > Use deborphan and debfoster to clean up your system if that's what > > you want to do. > I did not use deborphan since Debian Woody, since aptitude does the job > as well for me. aptitude is a good choice, yes. But at the time when I started to work on grml aptitude had some annoying issues and nowadays aptitude is just too time consuming for some of my tasks. That's why I often still use apt-get. ;) regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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