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Re: Using deborphan

From: Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam(at)earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Aug 17 2007 - 00:20:11 EDT

On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:

>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. 
>> It automatically delete orphaned packages.

>
> What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just
> because it's not being maintained is no reason to delete it. So long as
> it still runs and is useful it should *not* be deleted.
>

Then use aptitude to change that program's status to "hold":

aptitude hold gpm

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