Jimmy Wu <jimmywu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, 15:22+0200, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: >> lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > After purge, reboot it came back to before. >> >> Perhaps it's better to use aptitude for installing and removing >> packages. The big advantage is that aptitude knows a difference between >> automatically installed packages and packages the user requested to >> install. >> [...] > > Aptitude was recommended over apt-get for this reason back in Lenny, but > as of 6.0 Squeeze, apt-get can also tracks automatically installed > packages. I couldn't find any conclusive snippets to quote from > official documentation, but I think aptitude is now only recommended for > interactive usage, while APT is preferred for scripts and command-line > usage.
Hm, the manpage of apt-get says that there's now the option "autoremove" to remove automatically installed packages, so you're probably right. That's good to know, thanks :) Do all the other frontends using the apt library consider automatically installed packages now? -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwm6s1ns....@yun.yagibdah.de
