Excerpts from Daniel Hartwig's message of Sat Aug 04 17:53:08 -0700 2012: > > aptitude does not have the autoremove command that apt-get has. There > > does not appear to be any way to uninstall automatically installed > > packages from the command line with aptitude. > > Aptitude operates under the principal that you either wish for it to > manage unused packages, or you do not. The default is the manage > unused packages but this can be changed by setting > Aptitude::Delete-Unused "0". > > When managing unused packages any action will cause their removal:
Thanks for the explanation. I have had Delete-Unused set to "true" forever, so I guess I forgot that this is the default behavior. > An explicit autoremove command is useful for a user who has > Delete-Unused set false. In this case it would be equivalent to: > > # aptitude -oAptitude::Delete-Unused=1 install Thanks for the tip, that helps me! > Generally it is not our goal to mirror every function of apt-get, that > is not particularly useful. Aptitude is a high-level interface with > semantics different to the apt-utils: if you need apt-get for a given > task, use apt-get. One reason I prefer to do everything with aptitude is its handy log. If I switch to apt-get for some operations, some thing are logged and others are not. (I do know about dpkg's log.) Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org