Michael Prokop schrieb:
- T mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20061228 00:15]:
I'm just wondering, are grml packages initially installed by aptitude?
No.
The reason that I'm asking is that after 'aptitude purge evms', I found the libevms-2.5 is still in the system.
Run 'deborphan' to remove unnecessary packages from your system.
I guess the point "T" wants to make is that aptitude tracks which packages have been installed manually and which have been installed automatically (i. e. to fulfill dependencies). Automatically installed packages will be uninstalled as soon as they are no longer needed. You can change this flag manually if you want to: Usually I select the "libs" category in aptitude and press "M" to mark all packages in it as autoMatically installed. I don't know how this can be done (for the whole category) on the command line.
Use deborphan and debfoster to clean up your system if that's what you want to do.
I did not use deborphan since Debian Woody, since aptitude does the job as well for me.
Michael