Bug#895897: Further comments on apt purge

2024-04-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 04:16:14PM -0700, Andrew Athan wrote: > Note that > > apt purge ~c > > does something, but apt(8) does not mention the support for the ~c > parameter. It is relatively new and part of the aptitude-pattern backport. See apt-patterns(7). > On my system, it seems to be

Bug#895897: Further comments on apt purge

2024-04-29 Thread Andrew Athan
Note that apt purge ~c does something, but apt(8) does not mention the support for the ~c parameter. On my system, it seems to be attempting to remove all packages that have the "c" second character status in dpkg -l.  Unfortunately, this includes packages such as "locales" which I think