> Hi, > I know I'm late for the party but I don't see anyone mentioning > aptitude's amazing "mark for auto remove" flag (set by pressing M). By > marking packages you know you don't care about with this flag you > automatically get them removed when nothing you care about depends on > them. > Also to get this flag set automatically when you install packages just > use aptitude instead of apt-get, e.g. Replace any mention of "apt-get > install ..." with "aptitude install...". > Cheers, > -Amos
Hi Amos, yes iirc I saw that same orphan management tool in an "apt-get vs aptitude" article once but I'd since forgotten all about it... thanks for the reminder, much appreciated! cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
