On Thursday 26 May 2005 07:07 am, rich lott wrote: > Hi > > I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to > search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed > (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages. > > However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another > system and noticed that they would REMOVE packages which were only > installed in order to satisfy dependencies, when I removed the > package which required them. This seems like a genious thing to do, > and synaptic doesn't seem to bother, which means as I install and > uninstall stuff a lot of unnecessary packages are left behind. > > Am I correct or am I missing something? > > thanks > > rich.
afaik , aptitude and dselect 'offer' to remove packages that depend on the package you are removing. Those two package tools don't remove all packages installed when you installed a package + depends. -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
