Hi David, Skipping to quote most of the mail you wrote, I read it a few more times. :-) [....]
> In the listing above, you have removed versions 7 through 16, and then purged > 7, as quoted above. The remaining 8 through 16 contain no modules, and the > evidence is shown in your listing > above: there can be no kernel/ directory in any of them. > > Debian has put in place some protections for kernels to try to prevent users > from making the system unbootable. What Debian isn't going to do is change > entirely the APT policy just to suit your reluctance to purge kernels rather > than just remove them; viz: Clear. > remove: removes the files in the package, but not configuration (or other) > files that it or you might have installed. > > purge: removes both the files in the package and the configuration files, > including those in the package and those generated at installation time. > (In addition, it makes enquiries when files designated as configuration files > are detected as having been changed from what was supplied in the package.) Weird I have never noticed this. I have been using Linux for over 20 years and Debian since Etch. I have never noticed or read that I need to purge a kernel as well. Well, that just shows that even after all those years I can learn something new about Debian, something at the basic level of simple package management. ;-) Thanks for the explanations, I hope I am not the only user that learned something and that you were able to educate a few more users as well. Bonno Bloksma
