Re: apt-get install c-compiler

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:45:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> # apt-get install c-compiler 2>&-|awk '/^ /{print $1}'|xargs -r dpkg -l|grep ^i
> ii  gcc-3.0            3.0.4-13           The GNU C compiler.
> ii  gcc-3.3            3.3.1-0pre0        The GNU C compiler
> ii  gcc-3.2            3.2.3-6            The GNU C compiler
> ii  gcc-2.95           2.95.4-17          The GNU C compiler.
> ii  gcc                3.3-2              The GNU C compiler.
> Indeed I see I have a "subscription" to every new version, with no
> automatic mechanism to get rid of the old. Is this the ideal situation?

You could always use aptitude or one of the other half-a-dozen ways to
remove packages that were only installed to satisfy old dependencies.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]