On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:07:40PM +0100, rich lott wrote: > 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? You can also use debfoster or deborphans to see any clutter in your installation. > > thanks > > rich. > Greetings, Ionut -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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