On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:35:07PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [...] > > 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. > [...]
*yay*
Thank you Florian! This was what I always wanted.
Actually "man aptitude 2>/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused" did show
nothing. I had to set LANG=C to get what you see.
Sadly yet another outdated internationalized man page. :(
Regards
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Marcus Blumhagen
(The one and only Optionator)
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