On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:50:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:07:02 +0700, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > >> Some of us are partial to apt-get and would appreciate > > >> apt-findremovable. > > > > > I would rather appreciate that apt-get and aptitude share the information > > > of which packages have been explicitely installed and which have been > > > automatically installed. > > > > Why not just stop using apt-get? aptitude can do everything the same as > > apt-get and even supports the same command line parameters. > > Because "aptitude dist-upgrade" didn't work for upgrading my sarge > desktop to etch... it was unable to compute a solution while apt-get did > just fine. And this even if I tried to help him by indicating which > packages to remove and which packages to install.
Interesting... here, it tends to be the contrary. apt-get wants to install a whole lot of packages on dist-upgrade, while aptitude is able to pull the minimum required. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]