Apt-get versus aptitude versus synaptic

[R S Gill]

"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."


That might be great but why use deborphan and then apt-get remove when
aptitude does everything for you automagically?

Gill

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 00:48 +0200, Jens W. Klein wrote:

> 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.
> 
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