Transition from apt-get to aptitude?

[James Tappin]

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:39:03 +0200 (EET)
janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net wrote:

JJN> Hey all,
JJN> 
JJN> long time ago there was a conversation about moving from apt-get to
JJN> aptitude. There's a problem when aptitude handles dependencies etc.
JJN> a little differently than apt-get, and thus doing 'aptitude
JJN> upgrade' would cause some packages to be removed, and some of them
JJN> include packages I'm sure I need. (like OO.o2 for instance)
JJN> 
JJN> I vaguely remember someone posting a trick that made this go away,
JJN> but I can't seem to find it anymore. I'm thinking it has to do with
JJN> making aptitude to use the same list that apt-get uses, or
JJN> something similar. Wonder if someone understands what I'm getting
JJN> at? ;)

I don't know the trick to stop it, but what's happening (as I recall) is
that if you install something and it installs other packages as
dependencies and then remove the original package, apt-get leaves the
dependencies, while aptitude removes them as well (unless you've
subsequently installed something else that depends on them). 

So I assume what you would need is an option that says "don't remove
packages installed as dependencies when their dependees have been
removed".

James

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