* David Bremner: > Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> writes: > >> >> apt install _toremove +toinstall >> > > A common convention is to do something like > > apt install -- -toremove +toinstall > > I would prefer that to rolling our own syntax, unless there's some good > reason (other than the small amount of extra typing) It would also allow to use _ for purging packages.