Re: How do I check the package I just installed

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, 15:22+0200, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > After purge, reboot it came back to before.
>> 
>> Perhaps it's better to use aptitude for installing and removing
>> packages.  The big advantage is that aptitude knows a difference between
>> automatically installed packages and packages the user requested to
>> install.
>> [...]
>
> Aptitude was recommended over apt-get for this reason back in Lenny, but
> as of 6.0 Squeeze, apt-get can also tracks automatically installed 
> packages.  I couldn't find any conclusive snippets to quote from 
> official documentation, but I think aptitude is now only recommended for 
> interactive usage, while APT is preferred for scripts and command-line 
> usage.

Hm, the manpage of apt-get says that there's now the option "autoremove"
to remove automatically installed packages, so you're probably right.
That's good to know, thanks :)

Do all the other frontends using the apt library consider automatically
installed packages now?


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