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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2019-08-15 13:12:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2019-08-15 20:21:34 +0200 |
| commit | 083e72a5939d33dc1fd7596aa441a9982332f776 (patch) | |
| tree | b50d465b812d8155af0a79e994f0bd7ad8d73534 /doc/apt-patterns.7.xml | |
| parent | c64a85dd7524546864603b955f601bf64c9a4bcf (diff) | |
Add ?automatic and ?garbage patterns
These patterns allow you to identify automatically installed
packages, as well as automatically installed packages that are
no longer reachable from the manually installed ones.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-patterns.7.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-patterns.7.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml index 5aa352f03..327ea17d5 100644 --- a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml +++ b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml @@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ <varlistentry><term><code>?architecture(WILDCARD)</code></term> <listitem><para>Selects packages matching the specified architecture, which may contain wildcards using any.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><code>?automatic</code></term> + <listitem><para>Selects packages that were installed automatically.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><code>?garbage</code></term> + <listitem><para>Selects packages that can be removed automatically.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><code>?name(REGEX)</code></term> <listitem><para>Selects packages where the name matches the given regular expression.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -77,6 +83,11 @@ <refsect1><title>Examples</title> + <variablelist> + <varlistentry><term><code>apt remove ?garbage</code></term> + <listitem><para>Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer needed - same as apt autoremove</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1><title>Migrating from aptitude</title> |