On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:43:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| # apt-cache show fileutils
| Description: The GNU file management utilities (transitional package)
| Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed.
If you look a little farther, you'll see that the 'coreutils' package
now contains everything that used to be in the 'fileutils',
'textutils', and 'shellutils' packages.
| # apt-get remove fileutils
| The following packages will be REMOVED:
| alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7 fileutils kernel-doc-2.4.18 kernel-doc-2.4.19 kernel-headers-2.4.18
| kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7 kernel-headers-2.4.19-k7 kernel-image-2.4.18-k7
| kernel-image-2.4.19-k7 kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-k7 kernel-source-2.4.18
| After unpacking 183MB disk space will be freed.
| Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
|
| I don't know. Do I?
I'd say "no". For now.
| It said "safely be removed". Is this safe?
It is if you force depends. The package itself is empty. (look at
'dpkg -L fileutils') So removing the package doesn't actually remove
anything from your system. *However*, other packages depend on it
because they have outdated dependencies.
My conclusion is to leave the package there as long as other packages
depend on it. Once it has no more dependencies, then remove it.
-D
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