-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Miles Bader wrote: > Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This is the primary benefit I keep hearing about for aptitude over apt-get. >> I just don't see it as particularly valuable. Let's talk use cases: > > Lots of people don't want tons of random crappy libraries clogging up > their system just because they were needed 3 years ago by some pointless > waste of time package they installed by mistake, > > Maybe you don't care, and have gobs of disk space to burn, but _lots of > people do care_, and aptitude does an elegant and painless job of > satisfying this desire (unlike deborphan; I used it for a long time > before aptitude was usable, and frankly, deborphan is an unreliable and > cranky hack).
Really? I've never had problems with deborphan. GtkOrphan is really handy. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE8ErIS9HxQb37XmcRAqAiAJ4okPkhjP0f0PAHgODMgNAIqcgBqQCg7Vk4 drwutHvjRT6y+/aE6TbFCu8= =emQi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
