Apt-get versus aptitude versus synaptic

[Jens W. Klein]

R S Gill wrote:
> Aptitude is a far better program I think. This is because when you 
> uninstall something with aptitude, it actually removes all the 
> dependencies that were installed with the program.  Apt-get and synaptic 
> do not do this. So if you try out software on  regular basis, you run 
> the risk of having a lot of cruft build up in your system

IIRC does apt-get also remove dependencies. Sometimes some libraries are 
left. If you have such orphans 'deborphan' is what you want to detect 
and 'apt-get remove' to get rid of them.

Jensens
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