Apt-get versus aptitude versus synaptic

[Erik Bågfors]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:45:12 +1000, Rob Weir <rweir at ertius.org> wrote:
> 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.

It does too... check this out

: [bagfors at zyrgelkwytng]$ ; sudo apt-get remove mono-jit
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  blam f-spot libgconf-cil libgecko-cil libglade-cil libglib-cil libgnome-cil
  libgtk-cil libgtksourceview-cil libvte-cil mono mono-assemblies-arch
  mono-assemblies-base mono-jit mono-mcs mono-utils monodevelop monodoc
  monodoc-base monodoc-browser monodoc-manual muine tomboy

So, it remove things that is dependant on the package you are
removing. It does NOT remove packages that mono-jit depends on.  Which
is something I think that aptitude can to to a certain degree.

So, don't confuse yourself.

/Erik