Adam D. Barratt wrote:
Note the key aspect there (*regex*). You asked it to remove packages matching the regexp "n followed by t followed by zero or more occurrences of p". mou*nt* matches that pattern, as do some of the other packages. Those that don't will have been selected as dependencies of those packages, or dependencies of their dependencies, or...
All right. apt-get remove --purge '^ntp.*' works as intended.I'm sorry for annoying you but the folks in irc://irc.openprojects.net/#debian didn's spot the mistake, either.
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