Miles Bader wrote:
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Would you mind telling me why you think this is misinformation? (I had
in mind that using Apt-get for a while and then using Aptitude could
result in Aptitude wanting to remove packages that you wanted to keep.)
AFAIK, modulo bugs, that isn't the case. The problem with mixing
apt-get and aptitude is that aptitude might automatically remove _fewer_
packages than you'd like.
-Miles
I think that Aptitude might sometimes want to remove _more_ packages
than you would like. In an earlier thread, Florian Kulzer tried an
experiment in which Aptitude wanted to remove gdm after a Gnome install
- not what you would want to happen. He wrote
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg00288.html):
I wanted to check if the above trick scales up to more complicated
cases, so I ran "apt-get install gnome". This installed 88 packages on
my system and removed abiword (due to a conflict with the automatically
installed abiword-gnome). Afterwards I saw that "aptitude install -f"
wanted to remove gdm and three packages that depended on it. Aborting
the operation and running "aptitude keep-all" fixed this and made the
system stable again.
He also concluded that:
It looks like mixing aptitude and apt-get is not dangerous, but it
takes away one of the main advantages of aptitude over apt-get. ([...]
automatic removal of unused packages [...])
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Chris.
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