On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:26:21PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > It will never leave until you remove it yourself.
>
> if the package gets updated, and the update only has the ntpd binary but
> not the ntpdate binary, won't the ntpdate binary get removed? or does
> apt leave orphaned binaries around?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -S bin/ntpdate
ntpdate: /usr/sbin/ntpdate
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -l ntp\*
...
un ntpd <none> (no description available)
ii ntpdate 4.1.0-8 The ntpdate client for setting system time
...
ntpdate will only be removed if a future ntpd conflicts/replaces it.
Mike.
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