On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:57:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their > system?
# deborphan --guess-dummy > Find their name with > # grep-status 'This is a dummy package' > and then apt-get purge them? Seems not to systematic. No, it isn't. Finding dummy packages is mostly guesswork. > OK, I just tried that here on sid > # apt-get purge libcupsys2 > ... 50 to remove > It wanted to take 50 packages along with it... no dummy! Just because it's a dummy package doesn't mean that nothing depends on it! -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
