apt: dependancy removing

[Till Varoquaux]

Aptitude does.... synaptic doesn't. I personally use aptitude but when
advicing a beginner to use Ubuntu I don't want to freak him out asking
him to use CLI, set up a deborphan filter or whatever else.
No, don't get me wrong, package management is awsome in ubuntu. And as
far as I care I have already lived without any package management at
all...

However I beleive that everything should be as polished as possible.
It is the first time I see a distribution that could reunite
powerusers and newbies... Whilst on one hand I think we should value
clean solutions and powerfull, small simple tools, on the other hand I
also  beleive every time a beginner has to use the console for an
operation this is actually a bug... And I just can't see a none
technically savy personn trying to figure his way through deborphan...
That's why proper dependency handling in synaptics, the update manager
etc... is a matter of great importance, IMHO.

Till

On 12/8/05, Travis Watkins <alleykat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/8/05, Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'll be jumping on the testing bandwaggon now and hope to see this
> > introduced in aptitude head as soon as possible.
>
> It was my understanding that aptitude already had this feature. It
> seems to be one of the main reasons people say to use it.
>
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> Travis Watkins
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