Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows
*- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows"
> On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
>> *- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows"
>> > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll
>> > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading
>> > hamm->slink). However, I dpkg warnings:
>> > while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not empty so no
>> > removed,
>> > and the same for /etc/X11/xdm. Is it ok for me to manually remove these
>> > directories and their contents, or will I break something?
>> >
>>
>> As long as you were removing xdm with --purge or( _ in dselect). The
>
> My problem here is...
>
> I use the apt method in dselect, and I can mark packages to purge (_),
> but apt never purges anything... it removes (-) them instead.
>
The [R]emove option of dselect still works as expected and will purge
any files that have not been purged. Just use it to purge the files
that apt will not.
--
Brian
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