From 4e635415733178a2ce936690a8f4d91e0ea72f4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:48:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] improve debian functions

---
 src/package-manager-abstractions | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/package-manager-abstractions b/src/package-manager-abstractions
index 77965bb..20dbc05 100644
--- a/src/package-manager-abstractions
+++ b/src/package-manager-abstractions
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ elif command -v apt-get &>/dev/null; then
     pi() {
         pupdate
         local s; [[ $EUID != 0 ]] && s=sudo
-        $s apt-get -y install "$@"
+        $s apt-get -y install --purge --auto-remove "$@"
     }
     pi-nostart() {
         local s; [[ $EUID != 0 ]] && s=sudo
@@ -78,23 +78,29 @@ EOF
         $s rm $f
     }
     pf() {
-        # scratch a very annoying itch.  package description width as
+        # package name and descriptions
+        apt-cache search "$@"
+    }
+    pff() {
+        local s; [[ $EUID != 0 ]] && s=sudo
+        # nice aptitude search from emacs shell. package description width as
         # wide as the screen, and package name field small aptitude
         # manual can't figure out how wide emacs terminal is, of course
         # it doesn't consult the $COLUMNS variable...  and in a normal
         # terminal, it makes the package name field ridiculously big
         # also, remove that useless dash before the description
-        local s; [[ $EUID != 0 ]] && s=sudo
-        $s aptitude -F "%c%a%M %p %$((COLUMNS - 30))d" -w $COLUMNS search "$@"
+        aptitude -F "%c%a%M %p %$((COLUMNS - 30))d" -w $COLUMNS search "$@"
     }
     pu() {
         local s; [[ $EUID != 0 ]] && s=sudo
         $s apt-get -y remove --purge --auto-remove  "$@"
+        # seems slightly redundant, but it removes more stuff sometimes.
+        $s apt-get -y autoremove
     }
     pup() { # upgrade
         pupdate
         local s; [[ $EUID != 0 ]] && s=sudo
-        $s apt-get -y dist-upgrade "$@"
+        $s apt-get -y dist-upgrade --purge --auto-remove "$@"
         $s apt-get -y autoremove
     }
     # package info
-- 
2.30.2