On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:28:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/20/07 13:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:10:38PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > [snip] > >> > >> Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is, > >> you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard > >> to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use aptitude on a > >> non-stable distro!) > > > > Could you elaborate on this? I have been using aptitude on sid for about > > two years without problems. > > It likes to purge packages that it really shouldn't.
That bug was solved. <nitpick> aptitude by default does not _purge_ packages on autoremove. You have to set "Aptitude::Purge-Unused true;" in apt.conf </nitpick> Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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