another example related with aptitude shown below:
$ LANG=C sudo aptitude install mailx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx{a} exim4{a} exim4-base{a} exim4-config{a} exim4-daemon-light{a}
mailx
0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 262 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1871kB of archives. After unpacking 3817kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
[snippped]
$ LANG=C sudo aptitude purge mailx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... 0%
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mailx{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 262 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 36.9kB will be freed.
[snipped]
In the above purge command, bsd-mailx and exim4* was supposed to be removed
along with mailx,
but isn't.
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aptitude::Delete-Unused behaves incorrectly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217585
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