Under potato, after dselect upgraded ncurses to 5.0-X, one of the older ncurses packages was left behind (ncurses-base 4.2). It now shows as obsolete, but I'm a bit uncertain as to whether I should just go ahead and remove it by brutal force. Can something break if I do so?
,----[ Dselect buffer ] | ------ Obsolete/local Required packages in section base ------ | *** Req base ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 <none> `---- If I try to purge it, I get a very scary warning: ,----[ Scary warning ] | The following packages will be REMOVED: | ncurses-base* | WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed | This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! | ncurses-base | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 76.8kB will be freed. | You are about to do something potentially harmful | To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' | ?] `---- Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
