Re: Useless cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Heath wrote:
> > Those entries are actually used by dselect, so it knows when a package has
> > previously been available. dpkg has no use with such information, and yes, it
> > does slow it down(in addition to taking more memory).
>
> Doesn't dpkg -l use them to show when you've purged a package? and dpkg
> -s of course..
It does, but they provide no useful information in that form.
If dpkg -s is called on a package not installed, it should say such. dpkg -l
should probably call dselect with some commandline option.
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