George Bonser wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > What is "base"? I have three systems (hamm, slink and potato) and none of
> > them list a package by this this name in dselect (I don't recall it from
> > rex, either.) I do see base-files, base-passwd, xbase, etc.
>
> I think it dates back to buzz and earlier but I am not sure exactly when
> it disappeared.
I got rid of base from dselect a couple of years ago or so by, IIRC,
carefully editting /var/lib/dpkg/status for the base package. I changed
the Status to:
Status: purge ok not-installed
I see that base is still in /var/lib/dpkg/info, but I was afraid to
removed these:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 119 Jul 14 1996 base.conffiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 12077 Nov 27 1996 base.list
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1251 Jul 14 1996 base.postinst
But, at least I don't see it in dselect anymore.
Just yesterday I upgraded to slink and removed some of the same packages
that you listed (ncurses, newt, etc). I did a purge on them ("_") and it
didn't complain.
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...RickM...
