Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-09-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 18:23:08 +0200, T wrote: >Hi > >I used to use debfoster to install/uninstall packages. My recent reading >hinted that aptitude can be as smart as debfoster now. So I gave it a try. > >But I found that aptitude doesn't even come close to debfoster: > >% aptitude install apac

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-09-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 22:06:11 -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > T wrote: > > What? All the apache2-common, apache2-mpm-worker, & apache2-utils that get > > automatically installed are not touched: > > It is weird -- works for me. Can you go to aptitude and check these packages > which should be remove

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread Miles Bader
T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is unacceptably to me. These packages should be automatically purged > as well. Or I'm doing something wrong? You're probably doing something wrong. One possibility that comes to mind is that you've _already_ got those packages installed, having using some oth

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
T wrote: > What? All the apache2-common, apache2-mpm-worker, & apache2-utils that get > automatically installed are not touched: It is weird -- works for me. Can you go to aptitude and check these packages which should be removed, whether they have A to the left of the name of the package? Somethi

aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread T
Hi I used to use debfoster to install/uninstall packages. My recent reading hinted that aptitude can be as smart as debfoster now. So I gave it a try. But I found that aptitude doesn't even come close to debfoster: % aptitude install apache2 The following NEW packages will be automatically ins