Re: Swap

On 07.02.16 18:45, Michael wrote:
>Why dn't we just assume that Leslie knwos what he's doing ?? I mean, come
> on, there are lots of possibilities, like Matus' pointed out or like he
> wanted to test different desktops coming with different distros, and maybe
> even how distros do their installation.

>Why is it that so often someone asks with a problem she got ciriticised
> about what she is trying to do in the first place, instead of just
> answering the question.

I don't think that was criticising, we both wanted to advise different
approach. One thing is, if Leslie knows what's he doing, other thing is that
there may be other ways to do it. Nobody's able to remember all 20000 source
packages' features and possibilities.

While I use debian for some 20 years, I often find something that was
available for long and I didn't know about ...

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>Going through package managers can be painfully slow.

apt-get autoremove should do that automatically. But only for .deb packages
and dependencies...