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Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows



On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:30:36PM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> *- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows"
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> >> 
> >> As long as you were removing xdm with --purge or( _ in dselect).  The
> > 
> > My problem here is...
> > 
> > I use the apt method in dselect, and I can mark packages to purge (_),
> > but apt never purges anything... it removes (-) them instead.
> > 
> 
> The [R]emove option of dselect still works as expected and will purge
> any files that have not been purged.  Just use it to purge the files
> that apt will not.
> 
> 

That's what I've been doing, when I think about it.  I go through
dselect a page at a time and change all the (-)'s to (_)'s and run
remove option (takes a while finding all of them).  Why doesn't apt
honor the purge marks when it runs?

Mike
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