On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Michael Wagner <michaeldeb...@web.de> was heard to say: > * Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> 28.01.2009 > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:27:13PM +0100, Michael Wagner > > <michaeldeb...@web.de> was heard to say: > > > > aptitude --purge-unused purge xfce4-terminal > > > > > > It's documented in the man page of aptitude. > > > > All that does is cause programs which are already being removed > > because they're unused to also be purged. It won't help if they > > aren't being removed in the first place. > > From "man aptitude" > > --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. > > English is not my first language and I understand the above that it > removes packages which are no more required. And this is what the OP > wants.
The subtext of that statement is the assumption that you are aware that aptitude always *removes* packages which are not required (unless you have disabled that). Since you're the second person to make this mistake, I probably need to fix that text in the manpage. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
