Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This is the primary benefit I keep hearing about for aptitude over apt-get.
> 
> Then why not add a "apt-get remove --deps" flag which does it like aptitude
> (or at least, behaves similarly, maybe using something like deborphans)?
> 
> The main problem I have with Debian package management is the number of
> different tools.
> 
> Pet peeve: `dpkg -l foobar' may tell me that foobar doesn't exist, yet
> `apt-get install foobar' will download and install it.  This is particularly
> annoying when you don't know the name of the package, so you do `dpkg -l
> \*foo\*' and it tells you there's no such thing.  Why not have a `apt-get
> list' or something like that?  Or does it exist already?
> 
> 
>         Stefan

Well, 'aptitude search ~ifoo' tells you if there is installed any
package with 'foo' in its name and 'aptitude install foobar' will
download and install it. Documentation can be found in the package
'aptitude-doc-en'.

Regards,
Jörg-Volker.