Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/2/22 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com>: > >> I was actually surprised by the fact that I apparently had a bunch of >> java stuff marked as manually installed. I run aptitude without >> automatic installation of recommends, and I have no idea when I would >> have marked stuff like 'libxom-java' or 'bsh' (BeanShell) as manually >> installed, since I'm not a java dev. > > Stuff tends to build up over time. It happens under linux but nowhere > at the speed that I used to find the same thing happening under > Windows.
No doubt about that. When cleaning up an older server I have at home, I found files from 1999 in /etc/ for packages long since dropped and replaced. In some cases, belonging to packages that no longer exist!
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