Re: Old packages between upgrades

2000-09-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200 or thereabouts, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question about upgrading the system. > > When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I > had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is > old, but it's

Re: Old packages between upgrades

2000-09-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
Unfortunately, it's hard to catch those old libraries and cruft. I know at least two programs that are helpful. 'deborphan' and 'cruft'. I've had good luck with deborphan identifying unused libs. Careful though, just don't remove everything it lists ;) I haven't really used cruft ... On Tue, Se