Re: aptitude --purge

["Justin Jereza" <justinjereza@gmail.com>]

> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  telnet{a} <- also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like
> APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's.
> One must follow with a
> # aptitude purge ~c
> to clean up the mess.

If I understand you correctly, you want all automatically removed
packages to get purged instead. I have the following in my
~/.aptitude/config to do just that:

Aptitude "";
Aptitude::Purge-Unused "true";

-- 
Justin Jereza
LPIC-1