Re: aptitude vs synaptic
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 01:30 +0200, Antti Tolamo wrote:
> I'd like aptitude otherwise, but for me atleast sometimes seems to
> like to choose things for me, I've not picked up myself. And I've been
> many times been left wondering are all chosen packages
> really because depencies. Few times I've noticed they aren't,
> but they could been case of an user error.
Something I've found useful when wondering why aptitude wants to install
something is highlighting the suspect package, pressing 'r' (reverse
dependencies), which shows what packages depend on, suggests, and/or
recommends the highlighted package.
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