Bug#476075: closed by Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> (apt-get removes as instructed. Not a bug)
Hi,
I do not see the need for your suggestion.
I think you problem are
* POSIX regular expression need to be studied.
* you are complainig auto remove.
> Finally, in fact, I do not understand the algorithm. For ex., when I
> execute apt-get -s remove ^openof.*, why aspell is removed, but
> ttf-opensymbol not? I have both on my system.
^ means "string start with" thus ttf-opensymbol is not met.
* means 0 or more repeat
So you are essentially matching name starting with "opn"
aspell must have been installed by dependency. If you ignore warning,
that is your fault.
> What does it mean "identical to install except that packages are
> removed"? I know that installing means "install them and all their
> currently uninstalled dependencies, recursively". Does remove means
> "remove them and all its dependencies, and recursively all the
> dependencies of dependencies"?
When ever you issue command from root with regrex or glob, you must be
very careful. Matching 3 letters to do remove is bad move.
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476075
PS: autoremove was popular demand.
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