Le 01/06/2024, Florent Rougon <[email protected]> a écrit: > FWIW, removal of “obsolete or local” packages is easily done > interactively in aptitude: you go the the corresponding section of the > main screen, hit Enter, etc. The [ key recursively unfolds a section > (use ] to fold it back). You ask to purge a package by typing _ > (removing with -, as in the venerable dselect).
Forgot to say: one can perform the operation (remove with -, purge with _) on a whole section at once by pressing the key on the section title, where by “section” I mean: a foldable group of packages (e.g.: admin, kernel, libsdevel, libs, etc., plus actual Debian sections: main, contrib, nonfree, and presumably also the new non-free-firmware). So, for instance, a whole bunch of obsolete library pakages can be marked all at once for purge with a single _ keypress (this doesn't exempt one from _reading_ the list of packages marked with this keypress—make sure you didn't overlook something!). Regards -- Florent
