My knowledge and experience with aptitude is much better than with apt/apt-get/apt-cache. As the first document comparing these tools I recommend the one in the package "debian-reference-en" (or another language you prefer) which of course is also available on the debian site.
The search option of aptitude is very versatile and from the man-page of apt-cache(8) I couldn't find options equivalent to '~c' or '~g'. apt-get has also a purge option but I haven't tried it on a list of already removed packages. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lmfq13$c24$1...@ger.gmane.org
