Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade
--- Sam Halliday <fommil@yahoo.ie> wrote:
> may i ask how this would suggest that i have a broken system? i fail to
> see the
> reasoning.
You said to "purge all un-installed apps". I mis-read that. Mind you, it
wasn't well written anyway. :) What you mean is, you "remove'd" a package
but did not --purge?
> > One suggestion I could make to you is an apt-get --reinstall install
> foo foo+
>
> what would that achieve? i don't want to reinstall any applications, i
> just want
> an easy way to purge the uninstalled package config files to save
> clutter.
Then the only way to do that is to --reinstall and --purge. No big deal.
-- Thomas Adam
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