Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:28 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:37:34AM +1300, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> was heard to say:
> > Yep, I found that confusing too. What _I_ was looking for, though
> > (apologies for the thread hijack), was a way to say: "Don't remove those
> > unused packages at this time".
> > 
> > Is there an easy way to do that?
> 
> $ aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false ...

Cool, thanks for that. I must have missed that in the docs.

Thanks,

Richard