On Du, 23 nov 14, 15:11:56, Bob Proulx wrote: > > That is expected. Because when you purged that package the tool > doesn't know if you were going to install an alternative tool or a > different version of that tool or something different. It shouldn't > remove the dependencies recursively. Again there are other tools for > doing recursive removals. See "orphaner" in the 'deborphan' package > for example. Although I think "apt-get autoremove --purge" is the > main example these days.
Please note that by default apt will not consider packages for
autoremoval if they are Recommended, and as of 0.8.15.3 (pre-wheezy),
Suggested by some other package.
Because of this I set
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";
in apt.conf
Kind regards,
Andrei
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