Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable
On 2023-03-02, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 00:19, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
>> Man, I really wish the aptitude(8) man page would explain how to read
>> the output of "why". What does the "p" mean? Purged? There's nothing
>> in the man page that explains the symbols in the first 3 columns, as
>> far as I can find.
>
> Yeah. It does mean purged, or never installed.
>
> p - the package and all its configuration files were removed, or the
> package was never installed.
Those seem like antithetical concepts.
>>From here (Buster):
> grep -A 16 'Figure.2\.9\.' /usr/share/aptitude/README
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