[Hoary] XFCE "nightmare" : how to remove it ???

[R S Gill]

I'm not a programmer but it would be nice if Synaptic was able to do 
something similar to aptitude's purge.

Gill

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>Yesterday I gave XFCE a try. I went to Synaptic, selected the "xfce4"
>package, and it installed hundreds of other/related packages, fine.
>
>Problem : now I want to remove xfce. So I select the xfce4 package, mark
>it for "complete removal", and...... horror, it removes only the "xfce4"
>package, but not the myriad of other packages ! Of course I cna always
>take 10 minutes to remove each and every package that have "xfce" in
>their name, but what about all the packages that got installed but maybe
>don'ty have "xfce" in their name ? I can't rmeove them becauser I don't
>even know who they are ! :-/
>So I hav eno wya to remove xfce cleanly, nevermind easily.
>
>I guess I cna extrapolate and ask : everytime I install ONE package in
>Synpatic and it install 200 related packages, why is it that removing
>this one package, doens't also remove all the other packages ???
>
>
>Help.
>
>
>--
>Vince, now with a big xfce mess in his Ubuntu.... good excuse to wipe it
>all off and re-install Hoary in a few hours when the official ISO is
>on-line... ;-P
>
>
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