Re: Spring clean

On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:51:42PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
On 09/29/2007 03:53 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I do my housekeeping in aptitude interactive mode, with a flat package
list (this is my default, but you can get one from the menu) where I mark
everything as auto-installed (press M) that I don't specifically want. It
might take a while, but aptitude will then remove all unnecessary stuff.
Regards,
Andrei

How do I get a flat package list using Aptitude 0.2.15.9 (for Sarge)?

Is that feature only available for later Aptitude releases?

Try this in .aptitude/config

aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "";

Regards,
Andrei
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