On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:43:33PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > If you specifically don't want any X, I suggest strongly that you use > > aptitude interactively so that you can go back and forth if you choose > > something that wants to drag in X. > > Nothing against doing it that way (interactively), but when running > aptitude or apt-get on the command line you also get a very complete list > of what actions will be taken, and can cancel the install and try again. > To make sure that it (apt-get or aptitude) isn't going to go ahead and do > the install/remove/whatever anyway, I usually use the -s (or -simulate) > option before running the "live" command. aptitude always shows a nice preview (coloured) where you can see what packages are pulled in as depends/recommends and by what package. You also get to look at the suggests and chose some to install. IMO this beats the CLI anytime. > I never have understood the reasons (haven't checked very hard), but it > seems like apt-get normally gives an "are you sure?" prompt before doing > the action, but sometimes it just goes ahead and does it. Perhaps the > no-prompt behavior is automatic if there aren't many/any dependencies > to be hauled in or removed. I don't have enough time on aptitude to > know whether it does the same. AFAIR it will not ask if you only install one package. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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