Re: Making Debian comply to GNU/Linux

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

With a recent version of apt (I think since version 2, but I'm not sure, I'm 
using version 3.3.0) you could technically achieve your desired command line 
result with

# apt purge '?installed ?section(contrib)'
or more concise

# apt purge '~i~scontrib'

To see before what would happen add '-s'

$ apt purge '~i~scontrib' -s

If this achieves your mission statement "trying to make Debian comply to 
GNU/Linux", I don't know.

Regards,
Jörg.