On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got > > set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs > > were moved, upgraded, removed. > > > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? > > Anacron sometimes helpfully informs me of similar issues. I suppose it > should be simple enough to hack together a trivial shell / perl / > python script to loop through the directory, find all dangling > symlinks, and delete them; if no one posts some code, I'll try it > myself eventually. OTOH, this isn't the "Debian way", and I don't know > if there's any potential for upgrade problems or some other > interference with the package management system. The 'symlinks' package can do a search-and-destroy of dangling symlinks for you. The 'cruft' package can identify missing alternatives. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
