On Tue 02 May 2023 at 08:09:57 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 10:18:10AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 17:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > man apt > > > > Which doesn't say what 'apt purge' does without a package name. It says > > 'Performs the requested action on one or more packages specified via > > regex(7), glob(7) or exact match'. It doesn't go on to say what happens > > if you leave that blank.
> unicorn:~$ sudo apt --dry-run purge > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > So... uh... what happened here? It certainly didn't complain about a > lack of package names. No error messages. It didn't appear to *do* > anything, though, other than spend a bunch of time and energy reading > package lists and building dependency trees for no apparent reason. > So it looks like "apt purge" might not do anything at all. At least, > in combination with --dry-run it doesn't *say* that it's going to do > anything. > > If you're braver than I am, you might try it without the --dry-run and > see what happens. I'm guessing it'll do nothing, but I cannot guarantee > that, and I take no responsibility for any losses or damage. It seems a bluff was called. Anyway, I got 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. as it seems bookworm's libfreetype6 was upgraded overnight. And I'm not brave; the system was installed last night for the umpteenth time, this partition having been used to test the d-i for bookwork-RC1 several times for different purposes. Cheers, David.
