Received Thu 11 Aug 2005 4:52am +1000 from Karl Chen: > > Hmm, OK. I did also find aptitude to be unstable at times in the > past. Anyway, for the specific problem of purging deinstalled > packages, maybe wajig could directly call `dpkg --purge'?
Thanks Karl. I believe apt-get remove --purge used to purge deinstalled config files, but some quick testing now seems to indicate that it does not - but then for the same packages dpkg --purge doesn't seem to be purging either. I'll have to investigate some more, unless you have specific examples of where it works in one and not the other. Regards, Graham > > >>>>> On 2005-08-10 02:38 PDT, Graham Williams writes: > > Graham> Thanks Karl. I did use aptitude for a while but it > Graham> did not interact so well with apt-get and for various > Graham> reasons I reverted to apt-get. you will find various > Graham> comments in the code relating to the issues with > Graham> aptitude. There will also be some discussion of this > Graham> over the years in the BTS. Perhaps the issues have > Graham> been fixed, but I am hesitant to move to aptitude > Graham> unless there was a good reason to do so. > > Graham> Regards, Graham > > Graham> Received Wed 10 Aug 2005 6:56pm +1000 from Karl Chen: > >> Package: wajig Version: 2.0.29 Severity: wishlist > >> > >> Aptitude(8) is better than apt-get(8) for various purposes. > >> For example, 'aptitude purge package' can purge a > >> deinstalled package, while 'apt-get remove --purge package' > >> cannot. Its dependency resolution engine is (supposedly) > >> better. Since aptitude is now 'important' and default for > >> Sarge, I think some wajig commands should use aptitude. > >> > > -- > Karl 2005-08-10 11:27 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
