> 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
Configurations can be purges with aptitude purge ~c Hans
