Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list... Way back in the mists of time, around the time of the squeeze release, I asked here and it was recommended to use apt rather than aptitude...
I'm guessing the best practice has changed...? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Du, 17 nov 13, 16:39:10, Neal Murphy wrote: > > > > Actually, if efficiency was important, the --purge option would accept a > > regex. Or there'd be a --purgex option. > > Behold the power of aptitude > > aptitude purge ~c > aptitude purge ~o > ... > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt >