Re: obsolete packages in dselect

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"A. Scott White" <scottw@coderite.com> writes:
> I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15
> 
> Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete.
> What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages?

If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete obsolete
packages. I have a couple that I keep around because there's no
replacement in potato. glimpse for example is obsoleted but there's
nothing to substitue for it so I keep it around.

Gary