On Saturday 22 August 2009 12:52:54 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so the question now becomes, if i run that command on both > gcc-4.2-base and gcc-4.3-base, it looks like (not surprisingly) the > 4.2 package has lots of 4.2-related reverse dependencies, and likewise > for gcc-4.3-base. so do i really need the 4.2 stuff? > > if anyone has a fully-updated *lenny* system and they're willing to > run the same commands, is there anything about the output from the 4.2 > version that would suggest that it needs to be retained, given that > 4.3 is on the system? > > and on the system i'm upgrading, there are a number of packages that > are installed with more than one version. i'd just like to clean that > system by purging anything that has no value.
l...@tux:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2 Reverse Depends: gcc-4.2-doc gcc-4.2-doc gobjc-4.2 gfortran-4.2 gcj-4.2 gcc-avr gcc-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2-locales g++-4.2 cpp-4.2 l...@tux:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3 Reverse Depends: gcc-4.3-doc gcc-4.3-doc protoize gobjc-4.3 gnat-4.3 gfortran-4.3 gcj-4.3 gcc-4.3-multilib gcc-4.3-locales gcc g++-4.3 g++ fixincludes l...@tux:~$ I've also got gcc-4.1, which has a much longer list of dependencies than either of those. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
