-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:06:03PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Peter Ludikovsky <pe...@ludikovsky.name> writes: > > > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that > > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the > > only one with dependencies. > > > > Regards. > > /peter > > aptitude said it was just removing <package>, not those packages that were > installed along with <package>.
By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that it did just that on your system. Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable control group[2] :-) [1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s02s06.html [2] e.g. by doing a dpkg --get-selections > before and another > after and diffing the sorted results, or similar. Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlhAFaMACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaDQgCfaOptjSHslFhKFTxYe9FpL5da o9UAn1QY2dXL1c1oGm9SUOmL9IqdHdH3 =TWpu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
