Re: [gNewSense-users] Removing dev packages

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:14:40 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stayvoid wrote:
> > According to this guide [1] I should do the following:
> > sudo apt-get remove gdb gcc gcc-4.4 gcc-4.4-base dpkg-dev libc6-dev
> > cpp cpp-4.4 g++ make libstdc++6-4.4-dev
> 
> C++ software depends on the C++ runtime library (libstdc++6), which
> depends on gcc-4.4-base. That package doesn't contain any binaries,
> so it's not a security risk.

aptitude can help you here:

08:32:00 address@hidden: ~ $ aptitude why gcc-4.4-base
i   libstdc++6 Depends gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.5-8)
08:32:12 address@hidden: ~ $ 

(Just for the logs :))
thanks,
kk

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