Ron Johnson: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long > > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost > > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and, > > so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just an > > experiment and I wanted to get rid of KDE again. Aptitude allowed me to > > just 'aptitude purge kde' again and it removed *every* package kde > > depended on. If I had used apt-get to install and remove kde, apt-get > > Even X?
Of course not! But you are right, I should have made myself more clear:
aptitude removed every package kde depended upon *that were not yet
installed* when I requested installation of kde.
J.
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