On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dan Youngquist wrote:

> On 12/26/2014 11:32 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
>> I thought I'd try purging them the so-called easy way using kpackage but
>> when I get set to remove kdegames-trinity, it _looks_ like tde-trinity will
>> go along it. I know this has to do with 'meta-packages' but I don't
>> understand the implications.
>
> What I do is, first make sure there are no autoremovable packages.  Then
> remove the metapackage.  Then look at the packages that are now
> autoremovable, and mark anything you want to keep as manually installed.
> Then autoremove the rest.

so here's an example. I do:

sudo apt-get remove korn-trinity

and I get a whole list of stuff to autoremove. I've included it after 
my signature. some of this stuff I want to retain.

I have restored korn-trinity pending further illumination.

F.

-- 
Felmon Davis

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