On 5/8/05, Daniel Déchelotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Here is the baseline: while "apt-get install kde" installs KDE, "apt-get > remove kde" does not remove anything. Power users know this, but it can be > disconcerting for novices, and every user could benefit from a way to say > "okay, enough played with <insert subsystem name>, now I want to remove it".
Basically, I think apt-get is not intended for those sorts of users. aptitude does what you want by marking which packages were automatically installed, so if you had done $ aptitude install kde $ aptitude remove kde The desired result would be achieved. I think the problem is most docs and guides suggesting apt-get even if aptitude is more appropriate for beginners. [thinks to self: does synaptic do the dep-tracking thing aptitude does?]
