Re: Removing installed packages

Hall Stevenson wrote: > perl > perl-5.005 > perl-5.005-base > perl-5.6 > perl-5.6-base > perl-base > Why, for example, are there two versions of perl ?? Isn't perl-5.6 > backwards-compatible with perl-5.0x ?? I do see that the perl-5.6 > package can be removed and will leave me with 'perl'. It

Removing installed packages

I was looking at what packages I've installed over time, along with ones installed by default, and am going to some cleaning. In doing so, I ran across a couple that I want to ask about... They are: perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.6 perl-5.6-base perl-base and tcl8.0 tcl8.2 tcl8.2-de