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Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude



On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Rick Reynolds:
[snip]
> 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?

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