Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM, <berenger.morel@neutralite.org> wrote:
>
> It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed (at
> least with aptitude), which I think was not the same as when I started using
> Debian.
>
> I just discovered this because I marked mpd as automatically installed, and
> it was kept, while I only have packages suggesting it. I then removed it and
> took a look at recommended packages not installed (to double check), and it
> was definitely not here.
>
> I wonder if there is a way to fix that, if it is managed by aptitude/apt-get
> or by dpkg itself...
Check "apt-conf dump" for "Aptitude::Keep-Suggests". It's set to
"false" by default.
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