Re: Broken Symbolic Links in /etc/alternatives
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote:
> I just removed and purged emacs21 and emacsen-common since I didn't use
> it. Looking at the folder /etc/alternatives, I find out that there is
> broken symbolic link which is linked emacs21.
>
> Is that a normal behaviour that symbolic links in this folder aren't
> removed although the packages are already removed and purged?
No, it's a bug.
> If not, is there any tools to search and remove the broken symbolic
> links?
Try the symlinks package (although be careful about applying it
indiscriminately to /etc/alternatives).
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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