Jules Dubois([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:35:49 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Jules Dubois([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> > >> If you want to keep bluefish, tell aptitude you installed it > >> "manually". > >> > > I didn't install it manually. > > I should have been more specific. > > When aptitude installs something "automatically", for example a support > library or the components of a big application set such as GNOME, it > does so because some other package you installed depended on it. If you > later remove that other package, you don't have any further need for the > automatically installed package(s) because you didn't specifically ask for > it (them) in the first place. Then, aptitude will remove it (them) for > you. > > You said you didn't install bluefish manually, and that's certainly what > aptitude thinks. Since nothing depends on it, aptitude is going to remove > it. > > Now, what I meant was 'tell aptitude you installed it "manually"'. It > doesn't matter whether you did this (or not). When you tell aptitude you > installed bluefish manually, it won't try to remove it simply because > nothing depends on it. > > > Well it struck me a bit odd that I had bluefish runing an edit of my web > > page and aptitude was somehow informed that it wasn't being used. > > This is only a reference to dependencies. Aptitude can't know what you > want or use, only that no other manually installed package -- i.e., > package specifically requested for installation -- uses it. Just tell > it you want it, and you can change your mind later if you so choose. > > > I think I'll just remove aptitude and keep doing the dselsct update ; > > apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Everybody has their preferences. I found some difficulties when I > switched from Synaptic to aptitude, because nothing but aptitude handles > this sort of installation dependency tracking. > > I hope my explanation of aptitude's automatic removal of unused packages > helps you in your decision. (You might see that I am a fan of aptitude > and one of its best features is the automatic removal of "unused" [sic] > packages.) >
I see that, for many, aptitude does do many helpful tasks. I appreciate your views and might just keep it installed for those times where I will be removing a gaggle of packages. I will continie to use apt-get for my day to day use however. Thanks to all for the comments. Wayne -- For any problem there is a solution that is simple, quick, and ultimately worse than the problem. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
