<snip> > I just let it do it all, and will "wait for the other shoe to drop" > One thing that seems missing in these procedures is when a bunch of libs > have been purged, is a run of ldconfig to clean up things. >
No, when purging a debian package, dpkg triggers actions like ldconfig as prescribed by control scripts contained in the package (a.o., these script are still on the system when a package is merely removed). These scripts are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info for every package installed. For example there is a "libpixman-1-0:amd64.triggers" package on my system (amd64) which triggers ldconfig. Best regards, jvp.
