On Monday 24 January 2011 19:59:51 peter_someone wrote: > ...that since lenny it's safe to mix the two because a. apt-get now > handles (or can handle)orphans similarly thanks to autoremove and also > uses the same database or better yet, has the same markings for > automatically installed vs manually installed? IME, not in Lenny, but in Squeeze once it is released. APT and Aptitude should use the same database (the APT one) to indicate which packages are "automatically installed". Also, APT will have configuration options that to control if Recommended or Suggested will be uninstalled when they are no longer Depended on in addition to the current option that controls if Recommended packages are installed by default AND Aptitude will read and respect those configuration options. I use aptitude (which will grow a GTK interface in Squeeze) for all my package management, but I'm glad to see APT get more featureful. It's also nice to see Aptitude work more seamlessly with APT. I understand that aptitude was the preferred tool for Etch -> Lenny upgrades but that apt-get will be the preferred tool for Lenny -> Squeeze upgrades. I hope that the more "core" tool of apt-get will continue to be preferred, and that Aptitude can focus on UI and user experience improvements. Aptitude's interactive resolver takes a bit of learning, but I find it is much nicer than any other interactive resolver I've used and makes maintaining aggressively mixed systems quite easy. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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