On 2023-03-02, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Those seem like antithetical concepts. >>From here (Buster): > grep -A 16 'Figure.2\.9\.' /usr/share/aptitude/README > > --