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Re: [LUG] Package lists for restore/upgrade

 

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Simon Waters wrote:

On 11/10/11 15:52, Gordon Henderson wrote:

I shudder to think of some of the packages that get pulled in due to
some silly dependancy...

Which will of course be installed again unless the dependency was
actually wrong and has been removed.

True - but I have sometimes installed something then un-installed it, leaving behind the dependancies - which apt-get autoremove ought to fix, but I'm not convinced it's always right...

Gordon

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