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Re: cleaning tips?
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Re: cleaning tips?


  • Subject: Re: cleaning tips?
  • From: magenta <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:58:32 -0800

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:39:10AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Differences are:
>
> "apt-get remove" also removes packages depending on the one you want to
> remove, sometimes without asking questions. It may happily remove half
> of your fink installation. "fink remove" just fails if something depends
> on the package you want to remove.

Ah.

> "dpkg --purge" is more thorough than "dpkg --remove" or "fink remove".
> The latter leave configuration files untouched. --purge removes these, too.

Which is why I always --purge, since I don't like having billions of
useless configuration files sitting around. :)

> OK, we are way OT for the X11 list, anyway...

Oh, like 80% of the other messages aren't at this point? :)  It applies to
the usage of X11.app, and is at least somewhat topical in that respect.  I
mean, I've gone back to XDarwin at this point but I still think I have some
value to add to the discussion, specifically because of the amount of
cross-pollination in "using X11" and "using UNIX" or "using fink" or
whatever.  (I mean, usually people only start dealing with fink after they
have a reason to, namely a GUI for the UNIX side of things...  Terminal.app
doesn't seem to foster much UNIX-side stuff. :)

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References: 
 >cleaning tips? (From: David McKnight <email@hidden>)
 >Re: cleaning tips? (From: magenta <email@hidden>)
 >Re: cleaning tips? (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)

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