Re: synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)
On Thursday 26 May 2005 07:07 am, rich lott wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to
> search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed
> (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages.
>
> However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another
> system and noticed that they would REMOVE packages which were only
> installed in order to satisfy dependencies, when I removed the
> package which required them. This seems like a genious thing to do,
> and synaptic doesn't seem to bother, which means as I install and
> uninstall stuff a lot of unnecessary packages are left behind.
>
> Am I correct or am I missing something?
>
> thanks
>
> rich.
afaik , aptitude and dselect 'offer' to remove packages that depend on
the package you are removing. Those two package tools don't remove all
packages installed when you installed a package + depends.
--
Greg C. Madden
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