On Sun,23.Aug.09, 03:59:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package > > for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would > > expect. > > argh, i take it back -- i just noticed that this system has both > libdb4.5 and libdb4.6 but checking with "apt-cache rdepends" shows > quite a number of packages that still need 4.5, so i'm guessing that's > a special case.
Yes, it's similar as with the GCC, some programs still need the older version. My suggestion would be to start aptitude in interactive mode and start marking packages as "Automatically installed" (Shift+m) which you think you don't need. Aptitude will then offer to remove those packages which have no rdepends. I don't need to worry about marking Essential packages (the debian packages that have Essential: yes), aptitude will never remove them automatically. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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