Apt-get versus aptitude versus synaptic

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:48:54AM +0200, Jens W. Klein said
> 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 

No, it does not.

-rob

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