Re: synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)
On Thursday 26 May 2005 09:07, rich lott <rl3@shinyblue.net>
(<[🔎] 200505261607.40818.rl3@shinyblue.net>) wrote:
> 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.
That's also my experience with Synaptic, although I find it just as easy to
select packages with aptitude.
> 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.
aptitude doesn't require that you remove these packages but it will do so by
default. I don't know about dselect as I haven't used it in years.
> 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.
Neither Synaptic nor apt-get has this behavior. Debian users don't all
agree on which is the best policy.
> Am I correct or am I missing something?
I think you're correct.
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