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Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system

From Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system
Date 2017-09-07 22:20 +0200
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Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> writes:

> I see that some new versions of packages are installed without the old
> versions being removed, although they are marked as automatically
> installed, e.g. Linux kernel, clang, llvm, and some others.  For
> example
>
>   # aptitude search "~i clang"
>   i   clang                     - C, C++ and Objective-C compiler (LLVM based)
>   i A clang-3.5                 - C, C++ and Objective-C compiler (LLVM based)
>   i A libclang-common-3.5-dev   - clang library - Common development package
>   i A libclang1-3.5             - C interface to the clang library

That shows the ‘clang’ package is *not* marked auto-installed. That is,
the APT database shows it was manually requested, and so will never be
auto-removed.

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Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2017-09-07 17:20 +0200
  Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 17:30 +0200
    Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2017-09-07 18:20 +0200
  Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-09-07 20:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-09-07 22:20 +0200
    Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-08 17:20 +0200

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