On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:07 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > The package management system will still think that these files are > there, so your system will be in an inconsistent state. That might cause > problems if you ever reinstall gdm. (I think the installation scripts > will check if the config files are really there, but I am not 100% > certain.) In general it is better to let the package management system > handle these things and thus take advantage of the fact that everything > fits together so well in Debian. > > You can use dpkg to see the status of any package, e.g. "dpkg -l gdm". > The Debian Reference has a nice introduction to all this: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-pkg-basics > (The whole document is well worth a glance and can save you a lot of > time and effort.) > > Regards, > Florian > >
Great. All cleaned up nicely. Kind Regards, B.Hoffmann Linux User #398054 -Foresight Linux- -Ubuntu- -Debian (Sarge)- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
