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Re: Annoyances of aptitude (Was: Where are we now?) (Was: Bits from the RM)



Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> The way this garbage collection is implemented is one of the main
> dislikes I have about aptitude. Aptitude contains a database with
> packages that have been installed through aptitude; as such, it contains
> no information on packages that were installed through a different
> dpkg-frontend. Which is no problem in itself, except that aptitude
> assumes a package which has not been installed through aptitude is not
> wanted; this makes a transition from a different dpkg-frontend to
> aptitude cumbersome, to say the least.

I don't know if this might be a bug that has crept in at some point, but
when I first used aptitude, it assumed that everyone on my machine was
_not_ to be automatically removed. Which seems like the right default.

Craig

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