On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 00:19, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> Man, I really wish the aptitude(8) man page would explain how to read
> the output of "why". What does the "p" mean? Purged? There's nothing
> in the man page that explains the symbols in the first 3 columns, as
> far as I can find.
Yeah. It does mean purged, or never installed.
p - the package and all its configuration files were removed, or the
package was never installed.
>From here (Buster):
grep -A 16 'Figure.2\.9\.' /usr/share/aptitude/README
