On Tuesday 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, 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? > > If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > will tell you: > grep -B1 "Status: deinstall ok config-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status \ > | grep "Pac" | cut -d" " -f2 > and > for f in $( the above line ); do dpkg -P $f; done > will clean up.
The most scary thing I ever ran, I think. But what it is taking off is config files for: KDE (I have a locally compiled one!), realtime-lsm-modules for since superceded kernels, xserver-common for xfree86! and a bunch of libs (which if it does damage, I can reinstall them but I assume this means I removed them previously) and some older kernel images long since removed. So I guess its ok. However, this is not stuff that was listed in the alternatives. So I will have a look at symlink and croft. I do not know how much I actually use alternatives and I myself have not been maintaining it.
