Synaptic. Installed (local or obsolete)

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:12:47 +0200
Guido Heumann <listguido at web.de> wrote:
> > I understand the system that handles
> > dependancies to work "both ways" so I believe Synaptic would remove
> > a given package along with the last application that depended on it.
> > 
> > Or? 
> 
> Unfortunately not. AFAIK only aptitude has this feature, and only when
> 
> you also used aptitude for installing the packages. For exactly this 
> reason I have started to learn and use aptitude exclusively for
> package  management. It took a little time to get used to its text UI,
> but now  I'm very happy with it.


  You can use debfoster for that.
  Debfoster will work with synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, aptitude, ...

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Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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