-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote:
> Aptitude and apt-get behave differently when removing packages. > Aptitude keeps track of which packages were install because the user > directly requested that they be installed and which were installed in > order to satisfy a dependency. Then when the user request that a > package be removed, it checks its database of packages that were > installed to satisfy a dependency and also removes those 'dependancy > satisfying' packages that can be removed because no other package > needs them. > > In most cases this is good, but it can lead to aptitude doing really > bad things in some special situations. For instance, I once installed > kde by requesting the single over-all package that exists only to > bring in all the packages needed to give the user a standard kde > set-up. Then, after using it for a while, I decided that a lot of > what was there was stuff and clutter that I didn't want. I tried to > remove the stuff that I didn't want, but aptitude wouldn't do it, > because it insisted that I had to remove the over-all kde package > first. But when I removed that, it threatened to remove all kde > packages, which is not what I wanted. I used apt-get to remove the > package kde. This made all of kde's component packages into > independent packages in the little mind of aptitude. Then I removed > the ones that I didn't want without aptitude trashing the rest of my > kde set-up. > > So, both are needed, at least until users like me understand aptitude > internals better. > One good reason to stick to apt-get. :-) rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCd7d34Rhi6gTxMLwRAspQAJ9leluLeUaoDX0oFGEDRe1YTZKDngCbB58M dfs+5lBYbRhcFXTE2S7RbF8= =PRzt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]