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Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity



On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:21:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > before it asks you to commit to it.  Nobody has yet demonstrated on
> > the list anything that you can do in aptitude easier or faster than
> > you can with some combination of apt-file, apt-cache and apt-get.
> 
>     Alrighty.  Automatic flag.  :)  There, ya got it.

Nope, no good.  aptitude's automatic flagging is the same as apt's
default behaviour, last I checked.

>     So we can do apt-get install or aptitude install.  Difference is
> aptitude tracks what it has installed for you and when the calling
> package(s) is remove any package marked auto which no longer has
> dependencies against it is also removed.

OK, that's the only thing so far.

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