On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:58:18PM +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > What I like about aptitude is that it has a text gui, in addition to the > command line switches. Great for when you need to search through many > different packages, read their description, follow dependencies and > recommendations between packages in the dependency tree. That and the > fact that it remembers which package(s) just "came along" another package > that I explicitly selected to be installed, so that when you uninstall > that package everything it needed will be removed too. I was never able > to keep the system "clean" of stray package before. It's nice if you can keep it clean with just one program like aptitude. But for die-hard apt-get users like me there are two handy packages that can help out here. apt-get install debfoster deborphan Short descriptions: debfoster: Install only wanted Debian packages deborphan: Find orphaned libraries Does anyone know if these are also useful when using aptitude? I think so, but I don't really know the power of aptitude. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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