On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: > Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old > packages will purge files used by newer packages that are still used by > the system.
I'm pretty sure that would be a bug. You should report this behavior if you see it. Although I won't deny this happens, purging completely unused packages is generally a good idea, unless you want your system building up a nice history of everything it has ever been used for. - Keegan