On 2006/11/01 14:15, Anton Karpov wrote: > After many years of upgrades (probably starting from 3.3 or 3.4, don't > remember) my box has a lot of old libraries in /usr/lib. I'm pretty sure I > have no hand-build third-party software depends on them, and with every > upgrade cycle I update all packages along with release (thanks to espie@, > it's so easy now). So I think it's completely useless in my system, only > wasting disk space in /usr. And it's safe to remove those old libs. Am I > right? It would be nice to mention it in the FAQ.
There's a bunch of other things that might be hanging around too - if they're taking up enough space that you want it back, a reinstall may be a better idea. Since you're the one who gets to fix it if it breaks, you can do what you like :-) But if it's in the FAQ, someone will follow it, miss something important, have a problem and complain...
