On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Anyway, it seems no tool keeps users alert that some of their packages
> are "no longer". Perhaps it should appear when one does
> dist-upgrades, or maybe a deb orphan-like tool that one could run from crontab.
You mean like dselect?
--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---
----- Obsolete/local Required packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section libs -------
*** Req libs libperl5.6 5.6.1-8.6 <none>
----- Obsolete/local Standard packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section net -------
*** Std net libdns5 9.2.1-2.woo <none>
*** Std net libisc4 9.2.1-2.woo <none>
[..]
Peter
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