Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

To: Gard Spreemann <gspreemann@gmail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving
From: Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:52:35 -0500
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>> I'm struggling to understand the autoremoval behavior of aptitude
>> 0.6.3. Let's say I have a virtual package A provided by A1 and

AFAIK, it gets autoremoved it it was automatically installed AND if
there are no other packages on the system that depend AND/OR recommend
it, depending on your preferences. Otherwise it gets left on there.

Does aptitude purge ~c get rid of them though?

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