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OTOH, +</I>>>>>><i> /usr/sbin/remove-unused-packages finds only a wacom driver +</I>>>>>><i> to be removed. +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> Advice? +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> No idea. The move shouldn't have affected this list at all. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> /me doesn't use this feature anyway. I always use "urpmq +</I>>>>><i> --not-available" to remove old packages as I find the built in +</I>>>>><i> orphan tracking to not really be all that useful for me. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> That gives an even longer list, including harddrake and +</I>>>><i> drakxtools. I doubt if leaving them is going to cause any +</I>>>><i> problems, so I'm going to ignore them. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> --not-available should never show e.g. drakxtools or similar +</I>>><i> unless your system is not fully up-to-date. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> It basically compares your installed versions with the latest +</I>>><i> version available via your media. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Typically it would list old libraries we no longer ship (e.g. +</I>>><i> libudev0 for example) and which you can now safely remove. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I hadn't done today's update at that point. I have now, and the drak* +</I>><i> packages are no longer listed. I confess I haven't been diligent in +</I>><i> cleaning out orphans in the past, so they could have been there some +</I>><i> time. Most of the listed packages seem to be libboost_* - are these +</I>><i> old ones? If there's any doubt I'll just leave things. +</I> +Yeah there will typically be lots of library packages that are no longer +needed. The boost ones show up as they have lots of sub-packages. + +I don't do it that often myself either, so there does tend to be an +accumulation over time on my system too :) + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="017658.html">[Mageia-dev] Orphans after /usr move +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="017632.html">[Mageia-dev] Systemd improvement +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#17660">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#17660">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#17660">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#17660">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |