"Miles Bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
adept is a package manager for KDE developed by Peter Rockai on top of
the libapt-front library[1]. It supports debtags natively, it's the
first application based on libapt-front, and since I'm involved in both
debtags and libapt-front, I really want it in as well :)
So do any of these things support aptitude's "auto" mechanism (which
allows dependencies to be automatically deleted when nothing requires
them)?
That is the main reason why i use aptitude, and insist that all programs use
aptitude. If even one program tries to install without going through
aptitude i loose that information.
I personally feel that auto should be pudhed up to apt (the library). Thus
all front ends would generate the data, although they can ignore the data,
if so desired, and not do the automatic removal. Later when aptitude is run
it will clean up.
The other two reasons that i use aptitude is the better dependency
handleling (including reccomends) and the interface.
The better depenedency handling should be moved up to apt (the library). The
logic for handling reccomends should be optional, allowing a front-end (such
as the minimalisic apt-get) to ignore reccomends. The result of moving these
things up means that the various fron ends will avoid stepping on each
others toes.
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