[Aptitude-devel] Bug#716992: aptitude does not purge deleted packages when it asks for user confirmation

Wed Jul 17 04:17:56 UTC 2013

On 17 July 2013 01:16, Uwe Storbeck <uwe at ibr.ch> wrote:
> Hi Daniel
>
>> APT::Get::Purge should not have any effect in aptitude.  Its name
>> indicates it is only used by apt-get.
>
> Oh, I always thought aptitude "inherits" apt settings ...
>

Options in the APT namespace, yes, and some others, but APT::Get is
specific to one tool.