Re: Annoyances of aptitude

[Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:26:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> was heard to say:
> An alternative but safer way would be to record which packages were
> installed with aptitude only to fulfill a dependency and mark them as
> unwanted.

  This is exactly what aptitude does (assuming "unwanted" means "will
be removed when nothing depends on it")

  Daniel

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