Re: Bug#156132: apt: --purge is OVERACTIVE
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Hunter Peress wrote:
> DOING:
> apt-get --purge remove PACKAGE
>
> then hitting yes/enter
>
> will purge the dependencies that are also being removed. THIS SHOULD
> REQUIRE AN EXTRA CONFIG.
Er, this is how it is documented to work, why on earth would you think it
would do anything else?
APT even shows a special mark on all the packages it is going to purge
when it prints out what it is going to do!
This sounds reminicient of the old 'rm -rf /' is harmful, thus rm should
need an even specialer flag.
Jason
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