T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is unacceptably to me. These packages should be automatically purged > as well. Or I'm doing something wrong?
You're probably doing something wrong. One possibility that comes to mind is that you've _already_ got those packages installed, having using some other program than aptitude to install them -- if that's the case, then aptitude won't know that those various libraries are "only dependencies" because it never had a chance to record that information. Aptitude is conservative, and assumes that any package it doesn't _know_ is automatically installed might have been installed intentionally by the user, and so shouldn't be automatically removed. So basically, the first time you start using aptitude, you have to give aptitude that information, by marking as "automatically installed" all packages that you later want to be automatically deinstalled. After that, as long as you use aptitude to install new stuff, it will do do the appropriate marking for you. [This step is actually pretty easy because you can use aptitude's powerful search and limiting commands to handle most of the common cases -- e.g.: limit to only non-development libraries with the search pattern (^lib)!(-dev$), and mark them all as "autoinstalled" (with one keystroke); limit to all packages with names matching (-base|-common), mark them; etc.] -Miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
