Re: license packages
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> There is a difference here. Aptitude cleans up the dependencies
> automatically when you remove whatever needed them. Unfortunately,
> neither tool seems to be configurable to do what the other does.
> Messy.
apt can do that as well:
APT::Get:AutomaticRemove "true";
in /etc/apt/apt.conf
(for those interested: for other values, it may be worth to have a look
at preseed-apt from
http://git.debian.net/?p=debian-custom/preseed-apt.git which is a
preseeding interface for apt.conf, i did this do configure stuff through
a preseeding file e.g. in live systems).
> The most important part, though, is that apt does not track
> automatically installed packages on stable (etch) so it might have
> been ages but not long enough ages for Debian.
i do totally agree that one should use aptitude on etch, because at the
time etch was released, aptitude was better than etch. for lenny, i beg
to differ - i think that apt-get is much better in lenny and newer than
aptitude is.
that is also reflected in live-helper: for building etch images, we
default to use aptitude, for everything later, we default to use apt.
> Nice thing to try out when Lenny is released and I manage to get rid
> of any etch systems.
^5, i'm so looking forward to getting rid of etch as well
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