I decided I don't need aptitude anymore. Thought this info might be
useful for others here. Of course, aptitude should still be fixed.
I only used aptitude because I knew if I installed a package, and it
automatically installed dependencies, then I uninstalled that package,
it would also uninstall its dependencies. When I started using
aptitude, apt-get couldn't do that. I basically never use the ncurses
interface of aptitude anymore.
It turns out that "apt-get remove" provides that same functionality of
removing automatically installed dependencies. Both dependencies that
were installed via aptitude, and apt-get. Handling of dependencies
installed by aptitude was addded "~4 years ago... when apt started
having a notion of autoinstalled packages". - #ubuntu-devel
The devel channel also said that autoremove also works for dependencies
installed by all the gui package management software: software-center,
update-manager, and synaptic, because they use libapt. So I can stop
avoiding using those, which is nice.
You need to use "autoremove" instead of "remove" because apparently
somebody thought that was bad default behavior. I'd like something
shorter to type than "autoremove".
And, as I guess has been mentioned earlier in this bug, the aptitude
resolver is kind of icky.
Here's the evidence autoremove works:
# lsb_release -c
Codename: oneiric
# aptitude install clisp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clisp libffcall1{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# apt-get autoremove clisp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
clisp libffcall1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# apt-get install clisp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libffcall1
Suggested packages:
clisp-doc clisp-dev slime
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clisp libffcall1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# apt-get autoremove clisp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
clisp libffcall1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled
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