Re: Useless cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:38:21AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
>
> Is it planned to get rid of package entries for purged packages in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status anytime in the future? I don't see the point for
> keeping entries which refer to packages which don't even exist
> anymore. In contrary it would probably(?) slightly speed up dpkg
> actions (could probably be neglected though) when this useless cruft
> could be removed. At least it wouldn't confuse users about the
> availability of non-existing packages.
dpkg --help
....
dpkg --forget-old-unavail forget uninstalled unavailable pkgs
....
Ben
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