On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Johnson wrote:
Adrian Levi wrote:2009/2/22 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>:I was actually surprised by the fact that I apparently had a bunch of java stuff marked as manually installed. I run aptitude without automatic installation of recommends, and I have no idea when I would have marked stuff like 'libxom-java' or 'bsh' (BeanShell) as manually installed, since I'm not a java dev.Stuff tends to build up over time. It happens under linux but nowhere at the speed that I used to find the same thing happening under Windows.No doubt about that. When cleaning up an older server I have at home, I found files from 1999 in /etc/ for packages long since dropped and replaced. In some cases, belonging to packages that no longer exist!
I thought that using package management to do system updates, like apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade, removed packages that became obsolete, and thence associated files, other than data files created by the packages.
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