cleaning up

[Zachary DeAquila <zachary@zachs.place.org>]

I've been running debian on a certain system since about v0.93 or so;
It's a great system and I've loved beinga ble to just keep upgrading it wihtout
having to go in for long downtimes.

However, I now have some packages listed int eh Obslete section that I think should
be gotten rid of, but I'm kind of scared to touch 'em... for instance..

    ------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base -------
 *** Req base     base         1.1.0-14    <none>
    ----- Obsolete/local Optional packages -----
    ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section devel -------
 *** Opt devel    libpam       0.50-1      <none>
    ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section net -------
 *** Opt net      xntp         3.5f-4      <none>
    ----- Obsolete/local Extra packages -----
    ------- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section admin -------
 *** Xtr admin    npasswd_boul 1.2.2-1     <none>
    ------- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section devel -------
 *** Xtr devel    aout-librl   2.0.3-4     <none>
 *** Xtr devel    slang-lib    0.99.23-1   <none>

can I remove the 'base' package?  it claims to be obsolete, and contains
mostly /dev/* and the root dir structure...  and the others? which are
safely removable?

All help appreciated...

  --Zachary


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