RE: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote:
> > 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.
ah, that will be immensely useful, thanks. on my amd64 lenny
system, running that gives me only "libc6-i386". curious. since this
is a 64-bit install, and nothing installed appears to depend on that
32-bit library, is there a reason it was installed in the first place?
rday
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