Re: Automatic installs

To: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Cc: Debian-user List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Automatic installs
From: Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:28:27 -0500
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Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list...

Way back in the mists of time, around the time of the squeeze release, I asked here and it was recommended to use apt rather than aptitude...

I'm guessing the best practice has changed...?

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

On Du, 17 nov 13, 16:39:10, Neal Murphy wrote:
>
> Actually, if efficiency was important, the --purge option would accept a
> regex. Or there'd be a --purgex option.

Behold the power of aptitude

aptitude purge ~c
aptitude purge ~o
...

Kind regards,
Andrei
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