Unfortunately, it's hard to catch those old libraries and cruft. I know at least two programs that are helpful. 'deborphan' and 'cruft'. I've had good luck with deborphan identifying unused libs. Careful though, just don't remove everything it lists ;) I haven't really used cruft ...
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question about upgrading the system. > > When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I > had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is > <really> old, but it's not replaced with libncurses4 or > libncurses5. So, I simply erased it without any dependency problem. > > My question is that how can all packages with the same problem as this > be removed between upgrades ? Some are old or obsolete and the system > doesn't requires them any more, but when you have -a lot- of packages > installed, it is impossible to find which of this are. > > Thanks. > > -- > Do you really think win is easy to use? > > --------------------------------------- > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Running Debian GNU/Linux woody > --------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
