Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:51, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> From memory and the fact that now apt regularly nags me that certain packages aren't needed anymore, and can be dropped with 'apt-get autoremove', I *think* that the same (or similar) algorithms were implemented in apt,
I disagree. I had always used apt-get in my system, doing autoremove
whenever it suggested there were unneeded packages installed. One day
I ran aptitude out of curiosity, and well, it suggested to uninstall
almost 300 unneeded packages! After (not so) careful reviewing of the
packages, I decided to let it go ahead, and the result is that I still
haven't felt any effects, good or bad, from aptitude's cleanup.
André
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