Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4b29bdbe.2090...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>, Nick Boyce wrote: > >> The main advantage of aptitude over apt-get (IMO) used to be (sarge/etch >> IIRC) that aptitude added extra info into the apt database flagging >> packages that were only installed as a dependency of some other >> explicitly installed package, so that a subsequent 'aptitude remove' of >> the explicitly-installed top-level package would also remove the >> dependency packages because apt now knew the packages were no longer >> needed. It kept cruft out of the system. >> >> Has that specific functionality been rolled back into apt-get ? > > Yes. Although it is not entirely obvious. (apt-get autoremove) will remove > packages that are marked automatically installed but do not have anything > currently depending on them.
Thanks :) That's good to know. Now maybe I can remove the wrapper script for apt-get that I put on some of our Debian boxes at work for the benefit of other sysadmins who were accustomed to using apt-get, which simply displays "You probably want to call 'aptitude' rather than 'apt-get', because .. blah blah". Cheers Nick Boyce -- "You're not drunk, if you can lie on the floor without holding on" - Dean Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org