On Lu, 14 feb 11, 09:58:17, Erin Brinkley wrote: > Ok, one more quick Debian user question ... last one, I promise! > > After my upgrade to Squeeze I have a lot of packages that were "rc": > removed, but configs remain. A lot of these appear to be obsolete > packages. In any event, I won't be using them. Is it ok/good/smart to > "apt get purge" them?
Only you can tell. Example: you spent countless hours configuring some package and you don't want to loose that, in case you ever want to reinstall it again. OTOH you can just 'aptitude purge ~c' (after having a *good* look at the list) and put this in apt.conf if you use aptitude: // Aptitude should purge autoremoved packages Aptitude::Purge-Unused true; Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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