Re: deborphan

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> writes:

> What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that
> aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the
> only one with dependencies.
>
> Regards.
> /peter

aptitude said it was just removing <package>, not those packages that were
installed along with <package>.

Rodolfo

>
> On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install
>> <package>', and along with it a certain number of other packages were
>> installed.  Then I did: `aptitude purge <package>' followed by `deborphan'
>> but in the output of `deborphan' none of those packages that were installed
>> along with <package> was present.  Is that normal?
>> 
>> Thanks for any help,
>> 
>> Rodolfo
>>