Hi, Ian Jackson: > ... yes, trailing `-' is permitted in a package name. > > Could apt use ! or ~ or something for this purpose ? > IMHO, trailing characters are too non-obvious anyway. Also, ~ is already used in version numbers. IMHO that's too confusing. How about "apt-get install foo bar --remove baz" instead? (With "apt-get install foo bar ! baz" as shorthand.) -- -- Matthias Urlichs