Re: aptitude --purge
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:17:26PM +0800, Justin Jereza <justinjereza@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > 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";
Won't work: telnet-ssl is being purged by the greedy dependency
resolver (telnet conflicts with it), not because it's unused.
Daniel
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