On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:30:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> As long as you were removing xdm with --purge or( _ in dselect). The > > > > My problem here is... > > > > I use the apt method in dselect, and I can mark packages to purge (_), > > but apt never purges anything... it removes (-) them instead. > > > > The [R]emove option of dselect still works as expected and will purge > any files that have not been purged. Just use it to purge the files > that apt will not. > >
That's what I've been doing, when I think about it. I go through dselect a page at a time and change all the (-)'s to (_)'s and run remove option (takes a while finding all of them). Why doesn't apt honor the purge marks when it runs? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
