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

[Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:33:22 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent:

> On Ma, 25 nov 14, 14:25:13, Charlie wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you for that information, it was most helpful.
> > 
> > I decided to add:
> > 
> >  
> >    SuggestsImportant
> >    {
> >          "false"
> >    };
> >  };
> > 
> > To the existing etc/aptapt.conf.d/01autoremove file.
> 
> This may or may not be what you want, but changing that file is a 
> conffile of the package 'apt', so you will now be getting a prompt 
> whenever the maintainers make changes to it, whether related or not.
> 
> If you don't want that you should probably revert to the package 
> maintainer's file and put your customizations in your own snippet
> under apt.conf.d.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

Thank you both Andrei and Scott.

I have now added into the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/91autoremove with the
line:  APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";

And returned the other back to the original text.

Thanks again for expanding on what would happen.

Charlie
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