On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:01:55PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But if an app is removed from a repository, apt won't tell you. > > deborphan might, though. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ deborphan xmms > xmms > And aptitude why-not xmms doesn't say anything other than "the package > xmms was manually installed".
when a installed package is no more in any repository from sources.list (not even in a different version from the installed one), then dselect puts it into the "obsolete or locally installed" packages. The ncurses interface of aptitude should do something of the same kind. -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
