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Re: Source of Debian wisdom



On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:56:55AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
 
> FWIW, I still use apt-get instead of aptitude on my Sid machine. With recent
> apt versions in sid, I don't think there is a difference between apt-get
> and aptitude in terms of how they resolve dependencies (someone please
> correct me if I am wrong). apt-get also has autoremove option which can
> automatically removes the unused packages.
 
As far as I recall from the announcement about the autoremove option, it 
was stated that the developers of apt and aptitude were working together 
to move the dependency handling in apt. Don't know the status of this 
though.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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