Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

> apt-howto is a metapackage; you install it to get the apt-howto
> in all its various translations.  Once you've decided on the
> translations you need, and remove the rest, the apt-howto
> package will be removed as well because its dependencies are
> no longer satisfied.

regarding "remove the rest", the pros must have a better way than the
below, no?

# dlocate -l apt-howto|tr -s \ |cut -d \  -f2|
awk '/apt/&&!/-en/'|xargs apt-get -y --purge remove