On Sun,23.Aug.09, 11:43:37, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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
^^^^^^^^
packages> 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 ^^^ You > packages that have Essential: yes), aptitude will never remove them > automatically. Sorry, it's been a long night ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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