On Jul 26, 2005, at 23:04:04, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
Personally I much prefer aptitude to deselect, even when not
using it to just install packages, because it allows one to mark
packages
as "installed only due to dependency" and it will automatically
remove them
when the depending package goes away or is upgraded.
I use 'debfoster' for this.
I used to use debfoster, and still do occasionally, but with aptitude
one
can trivially browse package dependencies and such, both up and down the
dependency graph, including proper handling for virtual packages and
such.
When you install a package through aptitude, it also marks any
automatically
installed packages with the "A" flag. Oh, and aptitude has a built-in
Minesweeper game ;-)
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
I lost interest in "blade servers" when I found they didn't throw
knives at
people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room.
-- Anthony de Boer
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