Hmm, OK. I did also find aptitude to be unstable at times in the
past. Anyway, for the specific problem of purging deinstalled
packages, maybe wajig could directly call `dpkg --purge'?
>>>>> On 2005-08-10 02:38 PDT, Graham Williams writes:
Graham> Thanks Karl. I did use aptitude for a while but it
Graham> did not interact so well with apt-get and for various
Graham> reasons I reverted to apt-get. you will find various
Graham> comments in the code relating to the issues with
Graham> aptitude. There will also be some discussion of this
Graham> over the years in the BTS. Perhaps the issues have
Graham> been fixed, but I am hesitant to move to aptitude
Graham> unless there was a good reason to do so.
Graham> Regards, Graham
Graham> Received Wed 10 Aug 2005 6:56pm +1000 from Karl Chen:
>> Package: wajig Version: 2.0.29 Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Aptitude(8) is better than apt-get(8) for various purposes.
>> For example, 'aptitude purge package' can purge a
>> deinstalled package, while 'apt-get remove --purge package'
>> cannot. Its dependency resolution engine is (supposedly)
>> better. Since aptitude is now 'important' and default for
>> Sarge, I think some wajig commands should use aptitude.
>>
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Karl 2005-08-10 11:27
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