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Re: Using deborphan

From: - Tong - <mlist4suntong(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Sat Aug 18 2007 - 11:35:33 EDT

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:45:01 -0400, 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.

Yep, second to that, aptitude alone can do the job quite well. No need the deborphan. For details check out:

aptitude advantages
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/distro/debian/deb10-AptitudeRelated/index.html#_aptitude_advantages

> 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.

Aha, there are actually two kind of "orphaned packages" here, I guess the name deborphan and its explanation should be blamed for the confusion. In fact,

No, aptitude will never delete unmaintained packages. It is not a criteria at all. The correct saying is that "automatically installed packages will be uninstalled as soon as they are no longer needed..."

HTH

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