Bug#1004726: apt(8) doesn't mention the 'autopurge' option

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
Message-ID <20250810151008.GA2135884__44351.218063251$1754838807$gmane$org@qaa.vinc17.org>
Control: retitle -1 apt(8) doesn't mention the 'autopurge' command
Control: found -1 3.0.3
Control: severity -1 minor

On 2022-02-01 14:31:26 +0500, Akbarkhon Variskhanov wrote:
> In my humble opinion, there should be a brief description of the
> 'autopurge' option. Something along the lines of:

This is actually a command, not an option.

> > *autopurge* does the same thing as *autoremove* but also cleans up user
> > configuration files, in a similar fashion to *purge*.
> >
> …and adding it to the end of the paragraph about *autoremove* should
> suffice.

It should at least be mentioned so that one knows that one may use it.

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