John Hasler wrote: > Victor writes: > > But *many* people do install productivity tools, office tools, games, > > developer environments separately after the install, and then regret > > it and wish to get rid of them cleanly. > > What does > > apt remove --purge <unwanted package> ; apt autoremove > > not do that you want done?
Unfortunately it does not know what packages are unwanted, nor do I (the user) to tell it. We are all familiar with the situation when after a long period of usage, a system becomes full of software which we once installed for some purpose and then abandoned or disused. A gentle hint on what is an <unwanted package> would be very much appreciated at such moments. Maybe the high-level package management software (aptitude?) is better at that? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
