Re: apt-get remove question

On 2007-10-31, Benton <conversar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there,

New user here. I installed the gnome-applets package and as expected
apt-get automatically added 40MB of gnome required stuff. Now I want
to remove the gnome-applets package. I try with:

apt-get remove --purge gnome-applets

But I'm only offered the option to remove the gnome-applets package
alone, about 815Kb. How can I remove everything that was downloaded
and installed along with gnome-applets?

Won't help with the current problem, but if apt-get has the
equivalent of "rpm -qa", it can be useful to stuff the
results of such an operation into a file before _and_ after
each significant system change. I have even found it
helpful to make an RCS repository for this and other system
config stuff.

I also add an iterative round of "rpm -V $pkg" and keep the
results in files, one before and after each significant
system change. That way, if one installation happens to
clobber stuff from another package, I find out about it. (A
bunch of terminfo filed disappeared on me once, and that
experience made me paranoid.)

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