Is there a difference between “apt-get purge” vs. “apt-get remove –purge” ?
I was wondering this myself, as the two seemed to do the same thing. Google helpfully turned up a thread from ubuntu-users (Jan. ’09).
This post sums it up well (and accurately, I believe):
>Derek B. writes: >>Tommy T. wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 23 [...] Pierre F. wrote:>>> hi,
>>> Is there any subtle difference between the 2 syntaxes?
>>> (I couldn’t find the answer in any documentation)
>>
>> Don’t they do different things?
>
>No.
