vtpup wrote:If I wanted to assist in testing of a new version, how do you remove a test application? Suppose Synaptic brings in 30 individual dependencies when you install a single application in a clean savefile. And then you want to remove that application. How are you guys doing that?
After removing that (single) application try from terminal: apt autoremove
EDIT: If you use apt (rather than synaptic) to remove that application (e.g. apt purge <package>
), there should come some message like: "... ... ... are no longer needed, run 'apt autoremove' to remove these".
(but on BookwormPup, apt may not work as bullet-proof as in pure Debian, not sure though)