On 01/08/2013 08:59 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
Aptitude doesn't "automatically" *do* anything -- though however in terms of /selection/ it will respect your choice, and if you're removing something that's a dependency on other packages, it will set those other packages as "broken" and requiring an action to be taken on the broken packages.
Yeah, I think I phrased that wrong. I meant more that Aptitude would offer to remove all the "orphaned" packages along with whatever install/remove you *did* want to do, without providing an option to say "no, please leave them". apt-get will tell you of orphaned packages, but will simply say "you can run apt-get autoremove to remove them". My problem with aptitude had been it wants to run "autoremove" for every action. And since it didn't do anything more for me than apt-get does, I never bothered hunting down a fix.
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