Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

[Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm>]

Grant Thomas schreef:
> > > > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
> > > > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
> > > > several hundred MB worth of k* applications.  Exactly what I wanted and,
> > > > so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just an
> > > > experiment and I wanted to get rid of KDE again. Aptitude allowed me to
> > > > just 'aptitude purge kde' again and it removed *every* package kde
> > > > depended on. If I had used apt-get to install and remove kde, apt-get
> > > Even X?
> > Of course not! But you are right, I should have made myself more clear:
> > aptitude removed every package kde depended upon *that were not yet
> > installed* when I requested installation of kde.
>
> Question for you (anyone) then:
> If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a
> dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would
> removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current
> dependency for gnome and leave it?

In that case it knows that gnome depends on it, so it doesn't remove it.

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If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven