Sujet : Re: When will the madness end?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 28. Mar 2024, 10:18:52
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:36:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
On 3/26/2024 5:02 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:48:47 -0400, DFS wrote:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
That’s because you had something else installed that required them,
that you have now removed.
So why didn't Linux just clean them up?
You didn’t ask it to <
https://manpages.debian.org/apt-get.8.en.html>. E.g.
apt-get remove --autoremove «packages...»
Also note the purge function, if you want to get rid of leftover configs
as well.
Heard of InstallShield? Yeah, this is why Linux doesn’t need it.