Apt-get versus aptitude versus synaptic

[David]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Christoph Siess wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:06:02AM +1000, David wrote:
> >
> > apt-get --purge option will remove everything... but you should use it
> > with care. It can be a bit like using #rm -f
>
> apt-get --purge removes everything that came with the package, but not
> the dependencies.

I'm not a power user.. so forgive me if I have this wrong.. BUT....

Some time ago I decided to switch MTAs. It turns out that Apache requires
an MTA, so when I carelessly did <apt-get --purge remove postfix> it took
Apache with it. OK.. so I was stupid and I should have read the message on
the screen, but that's precisely my point.

Perhaps this behaviour has changed, although there is no reason why it
should have. What apt-get did was perfectly logical. It was me that was
careless.