On Jo, 17 iul 14, 03:17:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-07-16 14:28:00 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I do that too. I haven't seen any official documentation saying that > > > this is a bad thing to do. > > > > aptitude actively warns against it as highlighted in this thread. > > Wrong! I purge removed packages almost all the time with aptitude, > and I've never seen any warning! From aptitude(8) --purge-unused If Aptitude::Delete-Unused is set to “true” (its default), then in addition to removing each package that is no longer required a by any installed package, aptitude will also purge them, removing their configuration files and perhaps other important data. For more information about which packages are considered to be “unused”, see the section “Managing Automatically Installed Packages” in the aptitude reference manual. THIS OPTION CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! This corresponds to the configuration option Aptitude::Purge-Unused. Yes, this is probably not what you understood as "actively", but this thread is also not about running 'aptitude purge', but 'full-upgrade', and if you change the default... Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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