Re: Bug#33291: When a package is marked as "purge", apt changes it into "remove"
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> If I want to really get rid of a package, I mark it as "purge" in dselect.
> This assures me, that there are no conffiles, startup scripts etc. left on
> my system. But as soon as I choose [I]nstall in dselect's main menu, apt
> changes all these "purge" marks into "remove" marks. This is very much
This is actually dpkg doing evil. When you remove a package with --remove
dpkg discards the purge flag. The original intent was to allow the user to
run APT to remove the packages and then use [R]emove in dselect to do the
purge operation.
I suppose I will just have to make APT understand purge :|
Jason
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