On 2014-07-18 00:32:25 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 17 iul 14, 03:17:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2014-07-16 14:28:00 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > I do that too. I haven't seen any official documentation saying that > > > > this is a bad thing to do. > > > > > > aptitude actively warns against it as highlighted in this thread. > > > > Wrong! I purge removed packages almost all the time with aptitude, > > and I've never seen any warning! > > From aptitude(8) > > --purge-unused > If Aptitude::Delete-Unused is set to “true” (its default), then > in addition to removing each package that is no longer required a > > by any installed package, aptitude will also purge them, removing > their configuration files and perhaps other important data. For > more information about which packages are considered to be > “unused”, see the section “Managing Automatically Installed > Packages” in the aptitude reference manual. THIS OPTION CAN > CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE > DOING!
I do not use this option. So, there's no way to see this warning. > Yes, this is probably not what you understood as "actively", but this > thread is also not about running 'aptitude purge', but 'full-upgrade', > and if you change the default... I didn't change the default. I just purged the removed packages at the same time as the upgrade (with '_'). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140721190326.gb18...@xvii.vinc17.org