Re: stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 2006, T wrote: > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:45:49 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > > I totally agree. apt-get is sufficient. > > If you worry about the unneeded packages, then use deborphan. I use it > every time I install or un-install packages. no hassle at all. > > I never use aptitu

Re: stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread Jeff Zhang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:41:03PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: >> T wrote: >>> If you worry about the unneeded packages, then use deborphan. I use it >>> every time I install or un-install packages. no hassle at all. >> The onl

Re: stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:41:03PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > T wrote: > > > >If you worry about the unneeded packages, then use deborphan. I use it > >every time I install or un-install packages. no hassle at all. > > The only problem with this is that, IIRC, deborphan is deprecated in > sid/e

Re: stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Wackojacko wrote: > hopefully kpackage can be made to use aptitude in the future! It is called adept and its not-yet-100%-stable version is already in Debian/{unstable,testing} Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EM

Re: stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread Wackojacko
T wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:45:49 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > That's your problem. aptitude sucks. } } I always use something like "aptitude install -t version xxx". Aptitude } remembers reverse dependencies, hence aptitude purge xxx will remove xxx } and all it's deps, apt-get

stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread T
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:45:49 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > } > That's your problem. aptitude sucks. > } > } I always use something like "aptitude install -t version xxx". Aptitude > } remembers reverse dependencies, hence aptitude purge xxx will remove xxx > } and all it's deps, apt-get won't