On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:44:11PM +0100, Shot wrote: > Brian Brazil: > > Try aptitude. It keep track of packages > > that are manually/automatically installed. > > True. But I remember aptitude had this all-or-nothing feeling to it; if > you don't use aptitude from the beginning, this functionality is rather > limited, and you're commiting yourself to installing via aptitude in the > future - you can't quickly `apt-get install` something with aptitude > keeping track. (Hm, now as I think of it, you should be able to > `aptitude install` the same thing.)
Quite true. Anything apt-get pulls in is listed as manual. Hence I use 'aptitude install' unless I know a package won't pull in anything else with it. The UI is better than the CLI - you can see the conflicts which can identify alternative packages. And the full depends on/is depended on relationships. (where depends is also recommends and suggests). > Please correct me if I'm wrong on the above; I repeat, it's just > a feeling, I haven't used aptitude more than a couple of times. A rather correct feeling (in my experiance anyway). > > Alternativley, one you get rid of kde-baselibs(?) > > its gaurenteed nothing of KDE is left... > > kdelibs4, I believe. But debfoster (and aptitude, when used > consistently) are much more universal and seem clearer to me. To each his own. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
