RE: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00 AM
>
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny
> > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package
> > for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would
> > expect.
>
> argh, i take it back -- i just noticed that this system has both
> libdb4.5 and libdb4.6 but checking with "apt-cache rdepends" shows
> quite a number of packages that still need 4.5, so i'm guessing that's
> a special case.
>
> rday
You can run "deborphan" to show a list of libraries that nothing depends on,
and would be safe to remove.
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