On Mi, 04 apr 12, 10:58:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Sort of explains things to me - I'm still lost as to why I'd want to > remove packages for which no repository is currently listed in > /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list > Packages that custom packages, packages for which there no longer is a > repository (Google packages, temp custom repos) and packages installed > using repositories enabled only to install that package (eg. Debian > Multimedia).
It makes sense on a pure Debian machine (or at least with maintained external repositories), because packages that are not in any archive also don't get (security) upgrades ;) Even on my sid machine I only have one orphaned package, which I can't remove because it is depended on, but since it's marked auto-installed I don't even have to worry about it, aptitude will deal with it as needed. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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