Re: Removing Unused Programs

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:01:32 +0100
Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:

> Hello me.
> 
> Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59:
> > Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41:
> >> But AFAIK there's
> >> no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies.
> > 
> > Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic dependency removal[0] which
> > should be equal to what Aptitude offers.
> 
> And it works like a charm. I tried to install pdftk today and did via
> aptitude on my real system but via apt-get (0.7.0) in my VM and
> removed it immediately after installation on the latter machine. All
> dependencies were collected and removed correctly. (You only have to
> use „autoremove“ instead of „remove“ now but that’s only a matter of
> aliases and/or maybe configuration.)

Is there also an 'autopurge' option?

Regards,
Andrei
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