Re: Okay to remove obsolete required packages like "base"?
What is "base"? I have three systems (hamm, slink and potato) and none of
them list a package by this this name in dselect (I don't recall it from
rex, either.) I do see base-files, base-passwd, xbase, etc.
Bob
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > I've just done an upgrade to slink, but when I go into dselect I
> > observe that there are a number of obsolete packages:
> >
> > --- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---
> > ----- Obsolete/local Required packages -----
> > ------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base -------
> > *__ Req base base 1.1.0-14 <none>
> >
> > Can I purge them all?
> >
> > Now when I try and purge "base", I get:
> >
> > # dpkg --remove base
> > dpkg: error processing base (--remove):
> > This is an essential package - it should not be removed.
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > base
> >
> > Now I presume I should do some kind of forced purge, but I'm a bit
> > reluctant to remove an "essential" package --- is it okay to do this?
>
>
>
> NO!!!!!!!! DO NOT REMOVE BASE! IT WILL KILL YOUR SYSTEM!!!
>
> Just wait, that is a known bug and is on the list of bugs that must be
> fixed. Leave it until there is a solution for the problem. Otherwise you
> will remove several vital packages.
>
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