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Re: aptitude vs. apt-get



On February 4, 2005 07:39 pm, Eddy wrote:
>
> I start aptitude and type "g" to see what it plans to do.
>
> It wants to remove vim as an "unused" package. As far as unused packages
> go, I use this one everyday.  Well let's read further...  "It was
> installed automatically".  Well that's a lie : I installed it on pupose
> but I didn't do it with aptitude. I can accept this kind of behaviour
> but I will certainly not consider the message displayed as correct.

It sounds like you've already decided against aptitude, but for anyone else 
reading this thread...

You can fix this flag manually by pressing 'm'.

In my experience, aptitude always has a reason for whatever weird things it 
might want to do.  I might not agree with the reason, but at least I can find 
it.

I personally like aptitude, because it helps keep the cruft off my system.
But I find that I do have to keep an eye on it.

Jason



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