> Aptitude shouldn't remove packages you've told it to install - but it > doesn't know whether packages installed through other means (apt-get, > dselect, dpkg -i, etc) were manually or automatically installed.
AFAIK I had only ever used aptitude on that system. Besides, why not play it safe and assume that everything not explicitly tagged is manually installed? > Also, if you're on sid, there are a lot of uninstallable packages due to the > C++ transition I know. That's the point. dselect / apt-get just put these packages on hold themselves, while with aptitude I have to do it manually. C.