On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:23 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Michael Wagner > <michaeldeb...@web.de> was heard to say: > > From "man aptitude" > > > > --purge-unused > > Purge packages that are no longer required by any installed > > package. This is equivalent to passing “-o Aptitude::Purge-Unused=true” > > as a command-line argument. > > > > English is not my first language and I understand the above that it > > removes packages which are no more required. And this is what the OP > > wants. > > The subtext of that statement is the assumption that you are aware > that aptitude always *removes* packages which are not required (unless > you have disabled that). Since you're the second person to make this > mistake, I probably need to fix that text in the manpage.
Yep, I found that confusing too. What _I_ was looking for, though (apologies for the thread hijack), was a way to say: "Don't remove those unused packages at this time". Is there an easy way to do that? My context was that I needed to add a package to a machine that I'm not the primary admin for, and didn't want to go removing (or unmarking-auto) packages from a machine I don't fully understand the purpose of. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org