Adam D. Barratt wrote:
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...
All right. apt-get remove --purge '^ntp.*' works as intended.
I'm sorry for annoying you but the folks in
irc://irc.openprojects.net/#debian didn's spot the mistake, either.
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