Transition from apt-get to aptitude?

[Janne Jokitalo]

Hi Michael,


Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> Aptitude does try to track what packages are installed as dependencies
> and remove them when all dependencies are removed.  Are you _sure_ you
> need the packages it proposes to remove?  Sometimes packages being
> removed are selected due to version upgrades.  

Yes, that is the reason I would want to use aptitude. I am sure I need OO.o2
and I would like to keep it.

> You can control this, and other aptitude behaviors, through the Menu
> choices Options->Dependency handling.  Other choices are UI options and
> Miscelllaneous.  When you make the change here aptitude writes your
> choices out in ~/.aptitude/conf

Well, I looked for that option and did a bit of fiddling with aptitude UI. I
thought I got it, but then I checked that option again (Automatically remove
unused packages, I think) and the earlier functionality reappeared.

So I guess it all comes down to that that OO.o2 isn't good enough by itself.
It seems I have to install something that it depends on. What I was looking
for is some sort of function that could be used to "approve" things I have
installed currently, and from there on aptitude could do its normal operation.

Thanks anyway, Michael! Muchly appreciated!


-- 
Jaska