Bug#352267: apt-get --purge remove dbus-1 purges far too much
> Maybe not, or maybe he's just been using Debian since 1997, has a job,
> a wife, three kids, two hamsters, and can't afford to spend every
> evening re-reading man pages. Maybe he read it, say, in 2000,
> or maybe in July 2005.
Except the two hamsters, I'm afraid I'm having all of the above and up
to now I never purged packages the way you described. Would this be
because I manage Debian machines since 1996 (in the days APT was only
a dream....)? :-)
Hey, people who administer Debian machines for so many years should
bloody know that apt-get is a darn powerful command and that answering
its questions blindly can lead to catastrophes.
May I recommend you to use aptitude for this, by the way? It is now
more and more the recommended tool for multiple packages operations
and its output for these kind of things is clearer.
If we want to draw some conclusion from this bug report, maybe a
wishlist bug for optionnally removing dependency packages when purging
a given package...not more.
All this is IMHO, of course.
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