On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:17 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > after my removal of Gnome and a run of orphaner running dpkg -l | grep > ^r gives me a long list of removed packages whose config files are still > there (status rc). > > Is there some trick to purge them all ? > > I tried through dselect and synaptic but could not find a way. With aptitude, `l~c<enter> <shift-underscore> g [stop and read] g` will purge them all.