Re: how to clean off dummy packages?
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:57:12 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org said:
> Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their
> system?
# deborphan --guess-dummy
> Find their name with
> # grep-status 'This is a dummy package'
> and then apt-get purge them? Seems not to systematic.
No, it isn't. Finding dummy packages is mostly guesswork.
> OK, I just tried that here on sid
> # apt-get purge libcupsys2
> ... 50 to remove
> It wanted to take 50 packages along with it... no dummy!
Just because it's a dummy package doesn't mean that nothing depends on
it!
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