On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 12:04 +0200, Thilo Uttendorfer wrote: > Also, aptitude removes auto-installed > packages while apt-get won't do that (you need to execute "apt-get > autoremove"). So I don't really know what will happen to systems that were > installed with apt-get. New system installs where you use only aptitude > should work but I guess they could differ a little bit from systems installed > with apt-get. Maybe someone with deeper knowledge about apt-get/aptitude can > clarify this topic?
It may be useful to know that aptitude has a relatively unknown command "aptitude keep-all" which removes all currently installed packages from the autoremove list. Thus no packages are autoremoved afterwards. I once tried to install a complicated mix of packages from different Debian versions using a script under FAI and there this command was of use. Regards, Toomas Tamm
