On Thursday 26 May 2005 09:07, rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to > search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed > (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages. That's also my experience with Synaptic, although I find it just as easy to select packages with aptitude. > However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another > system and noticed that they would REMOVE packages which were only > installed in order to satisfy dependencies, when I removed the package > which required them. aptitude doesn't require that you remove these packages but it will do so by default. I don't know about dselect as I haven't used it in years. > This seems like a genious thing to do, and synaptic doesn't seem to > bother, which means as I install and uninstall stuff a lot > of unnecessary packages are left behind. Neither Synaptic nor apt-get has this behavior. Debian users don't all agree on which is the best policy. > Am I correct or am I missing something? I think you're correct. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
