On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 22:01:46 +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Is there also an 'autopurge' option?
> >
> > Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course.
> > This
> > will remove config files for the removed and automatically removed packages.
> > [...]
>
> This is good news, AFAIK aptitude seems to purge the requested
> package but only _removes_ the dependencies.
>
> Guess I will then use plain apt again.
You can tell aptitude to purge unused packages:
$ man aptitude 2>/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused
--purge-unused
Purge packages that are no longer required by any installed package.
This is equivalent to passing "-o Aptitude::Purge-Unused=true" as a
command-line argument.
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Regards,
Florian
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