Hi Douglas, On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you mix with apt-get ... > > ... This leads to the cruft buildup that > aptitude is suposed to help you prevent. I remember a thread some time ago that just pointed out not to mix apt-get with aptitude. The other problem is this. Install package A. Aptitude brings in > package B to meet a dependancy. Over time, you get attached to package > B in its own right. Later, either package A changes and doesn't need B > or you remove A. If you haven't told aptitude that you want to keep B, > it will go ahead and remove it too. > > In interactive mode, you get a detailed preview (with reasons) of what > aptitude wants to do. You can then edit that preview to fine-tune it > before telling aptitude to go ahead. It really tries to protect you > from yourself without preventing you from shooting yourself in the foot > if that is really what you want to do. Yeah, I had this once - don't know anymore which package - but from the command line aptitude wanted to remove a lot that I wanted to keep. So I had to enter interactive mode and put that stuff on hold. Greetings, Manon.
