On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Johnson wrote:
Adrian Levi wrote:
2009/2/22 Celejar <[email protected]>:
I was actually surprised by the fact that I apparently had a bunch of
java stuff marked as manually installed. I run aptitude without
automatic installation of recommends, and I have no idea when I would
have marked stuff like 'libxom-java' or 'bsh' (BeanShell) as manually
installed, since I'm not a java dev.
Stuff tends to build up over time. It happens under linux but nowhere
at the speed that I used to find the same thing happening under
Windows.
No doubt about that. When cleaning up an older server I have at home, I
found files from 1999 in /etc/ for packages long since dropped and
replaced. In some cases, belonging to packages that no longer exist!
I thought that using package management to do system updates, like
apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade, removed packages that
became obsolete, and thence associated files, other than data files
created by the packages.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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