Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> >
> >
> > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'.
> > >
> >
> > it does, but how does that solve my problem?  should i try to
> > purge a package, then see what the result would be before saying
> > yes/no?

> Yes. apt-get will ask you if you'd like to remove the related
> package.

  right, so i can always just use "--dry-run" if i want.

> Or you can use 'apt-cache show `packagename`'.
> It'll list the related "Depends" package.

  no, i want to go the *other* way -- to ask what currently-installed
packages depend *on* a given, currently-installed package.

rday
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