Dselect and obsolet packages
I upgraded to slink some time ago, via apt-get, and it's been running
smoothly ever since. I hadn't even thought about using dselect again
until recently and it upgraded a few thing apt-get hadn't
caught. However, it's also got a lot of packages in "Obsolete"
sections. What do I do with these? Here's a sampling of what dselect
has:
------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base -------
*** Req base slang0.99.38 0.99.38-6 <none>
------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section devel -------
*** Std devel ncurses3.4-d 1.9.9g-8.10 <none>
------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section utils -------
*** Std utils lsof 4.28-3 <none>
----- Obsolete/local Optional packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs -------
*** Opt libs libwraster0 0.14.1-7 <none>
*** Opt libs newt0.21 0.21-8 <none>
------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-free/graphics ------
*** Opt non-free libjpeg-gif 6a-11 <none>
------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-free/libs -------
*** Opt non-free libglide2 2.4-3 <none>
------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section x11 -------
*** Opt x11 xfntbig 3.3.2.3-2 <none>
----- Obsolete/local Extra packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section net -------
*** Xtr net opie 2.31-3 <none>
----- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages without a section -------
*** ? ? kernel-image homepc.16 <none>
*** ? ? kernel-image homepc.17 <none>
The last two are my home-brewed kernels built with make-kpkg (2.0.36
and 2.2.1) so I THINK I can just ignore those, but what about the
others? Can I remove them?
Thx,
Gary
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