On Sun July 14 2019 20:02:27 Felix Miata wrote:
> Mike Bird composed on 2019-07-14 19:28 (UTC-0700):
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> >> Is it normal for non-iis not to be reduced to 0? How to get rid of the
> >> numerous rcs?
> >
> > dpkg --purge ...
>
> # dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l
> 125
> # dpkg --purge ...
> dpkg: error: --purge needs a valid package name but '...' is not: illegal
> package name in specifier '...': must start with an alphanumeric character

You can either manually list the non-ii packages there or use some bash/awk
magic.

I'm not going to publish a solution that purges a huge number of packages
which someone might try ten years hence and do themselves a lot of harm.

--Mike