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Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable



On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 00:19, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> Man, I really wish the aptitude(8) man page would explain how to read
> the output of "why".  What does the "p" mean?  Purged?  There's nothing
> in the man page that explains the symbols in the first 3 columns, as
> far as I can find.

Yeah. It does mean purged, or never installed.

   p - the package and all its configuration files were removed, or the
       package was never installed.

>From here (Buster):
  grep -A 16 'Figure.2\.9\.' /usr/share/aptitude/README


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