On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:07:29AM +0000, "Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk> was heard to say:
> A user who reads the man page and doesn't expect this to happen didn't
> read it very carefully, IMHO:
>
> --purge
> Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be
> removed.
> An asterisk ("*") will be displayed next to packages
> which are
> scheduled to be purged. Configuration Item:
> APT::Get::Purge.
Is there any reason apt can't display something a little more
obvious? aptitude appends {p} to the names of packages being purged,
which IMO stands out better (I tend to mentally filter out post-asterisks
in lists of names) and is a lot clearer.
Daniel
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