Re: installation of a package requests removal of a lot of packages

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

antgel wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
>  
>
> > Do I need to do anything to prepare to use aptitude, or will it pick up
> > everything in my sources.list and preferences files?  Does it use
> > apt-listbugs?  More or less the same way apt-get does?
> >    
>
> You don't really need to prepare.  I'm not sure about apt-listbugs,
>  
aptitude does use apt-listbugs and because aptitude knows what you are 
currently trying to install it is easier to adjust your intentions to 
the output of apt-listbugs.  I guess with apt-get you could use command 
history but that doesn't directly help you with dependencies.

> you'll have to try.  One thing some people don't like is that by
> default, aptitude installs Suggests: as well as Depends: packages. 
You could be right but I don't remember that happening.

Paul Scott