Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a
lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages that
should be uninstalled, but for some reason are being kept? I have not
noticed this status before, and am curious about it.
It means they are marked for deinstallation in the dselect database
(/var/lib/dpkg/status). "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't pay attention to
that database; you'd need to use "apt-get dselect-upgrade" or just run
dselect for any of those to be noticed.
Actually, on looking at dpkg -l, all 64 of these packages are marked as
'rc' (remove requested, config files still present). Unfortunately,
none of those appear be removed by apt-get dselect-upgrade. That
command wants to remove three OTHER packages, upgrade one package, and
install 74 NEW packages, none of which I need, want, or have any
connection with the one package (fetchmail) being upgraded. Many of them
are KDE packages (I use only a very few kde packages and DO NOT run the
DE). Others are things like portmap (which I DO NOT want), bochs-doc (I
purged bochs without using it), a bunch of libs and other things that I
do not need.
All in all, apt-get dselect-update does NOT seem to remove those
packages, or do anything else that I want. So is there some other way
that will completely remove those packages (including thier config
files) without installing a ton of stuff that I do not want, or need?
--
Marc Shapiro
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