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Re: Purging a package...............



On Du, 23 nov 14, 15:11:56, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> That is expected.  Because when you purged that package the tool
> doesn't know if you were going to install an alternative tool or a
> different version of that tool or something different.  It shouldn't
> remove the dependencies recursively.  Again there are other tools for
> doing recursive removals.  See "orphaner" in the 'deborphan' package
> for example.  Although I think "apt-get autoremove --purge" is the
> main example these days.

Please note that by default apt will not consider packages for 
autoremoval if they are Recommended, and as of 0.8.15.3 (pre-wheezy), 
Suggested by some other package.

Because of this I set

    APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";

in apt.conf

Kind regards,
Andrei
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