Re: deborphan

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

> By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their
> configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that
> it did just that on your system.
> 
> Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable
> control group[2] :-)
> 
> [1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s02s06.html
> [2] e.g. by doing a dpkg --get-selections > before and another
> 
>     > after and diffing the sorted results, or similar.
> 
> Regards
> -- t

Configurations can be purges with 

aptitude purge ~c

Hans