RE: "irradicating" a package?

["Jan Johansson" <jan.johansson@nwl.se>]

>dpkg --purge package
>
>If this is failing, give us more info.

argus:/etc/exim# dpkg --purge exim
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of exim:
 at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed.
 mailx depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed.
dpkg: error processing exim (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim
argus:/etc/exim#