Re: Removing Unused Programs

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 22:01:46 +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Is there also an 'autopurge' option?
> > 
> > Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course. This
> > will remove config files for the removed and automatically removed packages.
> > [...]
> 
> This is good news, AFAIK aptitude seems to purge the requested
> package but only _removes_ the dependencies.
> 
> Guess I will then use plain apt again.

You can tell aptitude to purge unused packages:

$ man aptitude 2>/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused
       --purge-unused
          Purge packages that are no longer required by any installed package.
          This is equivalent to passing "-o Aptitude::Purge-Unused=true" as a
          command-line argument.

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Regards,
          Florian