safe to purge older versions of installed software?
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:55:52 -0400 (EDT)
this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are
a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for
example (and from memory), there are at least three versions of gcc
installed. am i safe to remove/purge the older ones?
perhaps a better question is, what is the command to list the
packages that depend on a certain package? in fedora, i'm used to
running:
$ rpm -q --whatrequires <package>
so i can always ask whether anything depends on one of those older
versions first. in particular, i noticed that most of those older
versions of installed packages were "lib" packages, so it should be
easy(?) to ask whether there's anything installed that needs an older
version. if not, i should be ok to get rid of it, no?
rday
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