Yeah - its not a lot, but its good to have a tidy system.  Lots of them were
old library debs that weren't referenced any more.



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 2:48 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Debian tip


On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:21 +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote:
> I cleaned up 64 packages that were no longer needed (32.9 Mb) on a 
> debian box that had been around since potato.
Out of curiosity, what percentage of HDD space does that 32.9MB represent?
Around 0.1% for my hda2 (/) :) Still, that does represent quite a lot of
updating that you can skip, and fewer (potential) security holes.

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