It seems that purge does not work also: $ sudo aptitude purge alacarte The following packages will be REMOVED: alacarte{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1,162 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
But automatically installed account-plugin-facebook really "Automatically installed": $ aptitude show account-plugin-facebook Package: account-plugin-facebook State: installed Automatically installed: yes 09.04.2013, 09:01, "Robert Holtzman" <hol...@cox.net>: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:25:24PM +0400, DimanNe wrote: > >> I have installed alacarte by this command >> >> $ sudo aptitude install alacarte >> >> which shows me this: >> $ sudo aptitude install alacarte >> [sudo] password for dimanne: >> The following NEW packages will be installed: > > ......massive snip of unnecessary verbiage...... > >> So, I assumed that when I will delete alacarte aptitude suggests to remove >> all these automatically installed packages, but: >> >> aptitude remove: >> $ sudo aptitude remove alacarte > > ......snip of yet more unnecessary verbiage....... > >> Is it all right? Or is it bug? >> If it is all right - why? > > Next time use purge instead of remove. > > -- > Bob Holtzman > If you think you're getting free lunch, > check the price of the beer. > Key ID: 8D549279 > > , > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss