On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:00:44AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > ... But, since there are pretty current versions of > > gnome in potato you might use those... > > Surely it woulb be _very_good_ idea, along with communicator and a > really _huge_ stuff I have in, but I really afraid about messing my > system with broken dependencies and so... Ok, removing almos all the > bunch I have would be a great idea too... but I have some questions to > ask:
Understandable trepidation... > 1. Does Debian install any stuff inside /usr/local ? Never! Well, almost never. There are a couple empty directories created for perl, python, tex, ghostscript, others... (Those are for *you* to add modules/extensions -- not debian packages). > 2. Is secure to the system integrity to _wipe_ /usr/local (no > daemons/services stored in /usr/local and such issues)? The sense of > _wiping_ /usr/local means removing files/symlinks from /usr/local/bin, > /usr/local/lib and such. Only ones you've installed. You'll still want /usr/local, though. > I'm a bit short of space in my /usr partition, and it would be > "useful"... :) If you remove your versions, and install the debian versions, it's sort of a "half a dozen of one vs. six of the other" kind of thing. If you have drive space somewhere, you could move /usr/local to a new partition, thus giving /usr more room. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
