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  deborphan Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 12:30 +0100
    Re: deborphan Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 13:10 +0100
      Re: deborphan <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-12-01 13:30 +0100
        Re: deborphan Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: deborphan Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-12-01 13:10 +0100

#175298 — deborphan

I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install
<package>', and along with it a certain number of other packages were
installed.  Then I did: `aptitude purge <package>' followed by `deborphan' but
in the output of `deborphan' none of those packages that were installed along
with <package> was present.  Is that normal?

Thanks for any help,

Rodolfo

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Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> writes:

> What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that
> aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the
> only one with dependencies.
>
> Regards.
> /peter

aptitude said it was just removing <package>, not those packages that were
installed along with <package>.

Rodolfo

>
> On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install
>> <package>', and along with it a certain number of other packages were
>> installed.  Then I did: `aptitude purge <package>' followed by `deborphan'
>> but in the output of `deborphan' none of those packages that were installed
>> along with <package> was present.  Is that normal?
>> 
>> Thanks for any help,
>> 
>> Rodolfo
>> 

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:06:03PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> writes:
> 
> > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that
> > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the
> > only one with dependencies.
> >
> > Regards.
> > /peter
> 
> aptitude said it was just removing <package>, not those packages that were
> installed along with <package>.

By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their
configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that
it did just that on your system.

Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable
control group[2] :-)

[1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s02s06.html
[2] e.g. by doing a dpkg --get-selections > before and another
    > after and diffing the sorted results, or similar.

Regards
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#175304

> By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their
> configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that
> it did just that on your system.
> 
> Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable
> control group[2] :-)
> 
> [1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s02s06.html
> [2] e.g. by doing a dpkg --get-selections > before and another
> 
>     > after and diffing the sorted results, or similar.
> 
> Regards
> -- t

Configurations can be purges with 

aptitude purge ~c

Hans

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#175302

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What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that
aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the
only one with dependencies.

Regards.
/peter

On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install
> <package>', and along with it a certain number of other packages were
> installed.  Then I did: `aptitude purge <package>' followed by `deborphan' but
> in the output of `deborphan' none of those packages that were installed along
> with <package> was present.  Is that normal?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Rodolfo
> 

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