On 2009-04-16 18:56 +0200, Ben wrote: > installation of package sendmail => http://rafb.net/p/CyyCc011.html > purge of package sendmail => http://rafb.net/p/L9QeCU60.html
Please include such output in your mail, so that people don't have to jump through hoops to read (and possibly cite) it. > why does aptitude not remove all packages installed? The packages > sendmail-base, sendmail-bin, sendmail-cf aren't depencies for any > other package installed. > > Immediately after i installed sendmail i purged it, so the packages > left behind are NOT depencies! Probably you have some package that recommends mail-transport-agent which is provided by sendmail-bin, so aptitude keeps it. The command $ aptitude why sendmail-bin will give you more information. Note that aptitude only removes automatically installed packages that are recommended by other packages if the options Apt::Install-Recommends and Aptitude::Keep-Recommends are both set to false. See the aptitude user manual for more information. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org