On 16/02/03 Brian Nelson did speaketh:
> What if you want to honor a package's "Recommends" field with apt-get?
> That'll take some extra effort that isn't necessary with aptitude. Or
> what if you want to automatically remove the dependencies a package
> pulled in when you delete that package? Pretty tricky to do with
> apt-get. Also, apt-get cannot provide user interaction to resolve a
> tricky conflict and instead will just give up, leaving the user confused
> as to what went wrong.
Unfortunately I find the interface to aptitude so mystifying that it
leaves me confused as to how to use it.
Mike
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