synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)

[rich lott <rl3@shinyblue.net>]

Hi 

I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to search 
the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed (dependencies etc) 
and easy to select packages.

However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another system 
and noticed that they would REMOVE packages which were only installed in 
order to satisfy dependencies, when I removed the package which required 
them. This seems like a genious thing to do, and synaptic doesn't seem to 
bother, which means as I install and uninstall stuff a lot of unnecessary 
packages are left behind.

Am I correct or am I missing something?

thanks

rich.