Glimpse (Re: obsolete packages in dselect)

2000-05-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete obsolete Gary> packages. I have a couple that I keep around because there's no Gary> replacement in potato. glimpse for example is obsoleted but there's Gary> n

Re: obsolete packages in dselect

2000-05-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
As far as I know obsolete means something as: old, not needed any more or there are better packages to replace this one with. You can remove them if you want to, as long as they don't give any conflicts it won't matter if you leave them on. Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, A. Scott White wrote:

Re: obsolete packages in dselect

2000-05-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"A. Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15 > > Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete. > What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages? If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete

obsolete packages in dselect

2000-05-18 Thread A. Scott White
I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15 Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete. What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages? Thanks. A. Scott White Director of Information Systems a