sky knight wrote:
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
From: Rahul Sundaram
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] A simple script to clean up ( remove ) a kernel
To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 2:26 PM>A script to do this manually breaks
package management badly and should never be >done.
Can u Please explain me.
Software in Linux distributions is managed by packages, be it RPM, Deb
or something else. Conceptually it's all the same thing and makes no
material difference usually. The strength of using such package
management is that every single file is available in a database for you
to do very powerful queries. I know which package every single file in
my system belongs to. I can figure out associated documentation,
configuration files, update the software, remove it and so on.
If you install software from source or delete files arbitrarily, the
packager manager is suddenly disconnected from this operation and you
lose the benefits and get a mismash of files in your system which cannot
be managed easily. Just say No.
Rahul
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