On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 12:28 +0200, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.27 > Severity: critical > Justification: may remove unrelated software > > apt-get remove --purge "ntp*" selects non matching packets > including essential ones like mount or login.
No. It's selected *exactly* what you told it to. > bksys:/etc/default# apt-get remove --purge "ntp*" > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Note, selecting liblog-agent-logger-perl for regex 'ntp*' ^^^^^^^^^ Note the key aspect there (*regex*). You asked it to remove packages matching the regexp "n followed by t followed by zero or more occurrences of p". mou*nt* matches that pattern, as do some of the other packages. Those that don't will have been selected as dependencies of those packages, or dependencies of their dependencies, or... Regards, Adam
