[ubuntu-in] cpp and gcc multiple packages

[Narendra Diwate]

Thanks for the prompt reply Mohanty.

While I was not planning to remove any of them, it does seem like either a
bad package design that different packages are dependent on different
versions of the same package. I had a look at what would get removed and it
was basically everything usefull and make my system pretty useless.

Is this what it is like across All Linux distros, or is it unique to
Debian? How about Arch or Fedora?

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Regards

Narendra Diwate



On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Gora Mohanty <gora at mimirtech.com> wrote:

> Different application packages might require different versions
> of gcc, and installing these packages would have pulled these
> in as dependencies without your explicitly installing them.
>
> Yes, this is also true of my system, and I would strongly suggest
> not removing these, as some application(s) in your system needs
> this, and the only down-side is some extra disk space.
>
> You should only remove them if you do not need any of the
> packages that depend on it. N.B.: Be careful in following the
> instructions below. For example try:
>   sudo aptitude remove --purge gcc-4.4
> This will list the applications that will be removed as a result
> of removing this version of gcc. If you really do not need these
> packages, you can go ahead with the removal. Again, I would
> strongly suggest that you do not do this.
>
>
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