[Aptitude-devel] Bug#734334: aptitude --refresh-state

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: aptitude

Just like
  dpkg --update-avail, --merge-avail Packages-file
              Update dpkg's and dselect's idea of...

There needs to be some aptitude command, that will relieve aptitude of
mistaken notions:

# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iproute{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed