Re: Best methods?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:25:19AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,18.Sep.08, 23:02:35, Sven Joachim wrote:
>  
> > > What about 'aptitude purge ~c'?
> > 
> > Indeed that's easier, thanks.  With the caveat that I had to use "~c",
> > since otherwise zsh wants to expand ~c to a username:
> > zsh: no such user or named directory: c
>  
> And the long version '?config-files'?

You can alternatively use aptitude interactive mode.

Enter "l" to popup 
  Enter the new package tree limit:

Then enter "~c"

You get interactive session to deal with these packages so you are less
likely to overdo this removal.

Osamu