Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?
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Miles Bader wrote:
> Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> writes:
>> This is the primary benefit I keep hearing about for aptitude over apt-get.
>> I just don't see it as particularly valuable. Let's talk use cases:
>
> Lots of people don't want tons of random crappy libraries clogging up
> their system just because they were needed 3 years ago by some pointless
> waste of time package they installed by mistake,
>
> Maybe you don't care, and have gobs of disk space to burn, but _lots of
> people do care_, and aptitude does an elegant and painless job of
> satisfying this desire (unlike deborphan; I used it for a long time
> before aptitude was usable, and frankly, deborphan is an unreliable and
> cranky hack).
Really? I've never had problems with deborphan. GtkOrphan is
really handy.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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