Synaptic. Installed (local or obsolete)

[Guido Heumann]

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) schrieb:
> 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, ...
> 

I know, I tried debfoster already. It's useful, but I find it behaves 
less intelligent than aptitude. At least for my purpose, which usually 
is trying out some new packages and then remove the ones I don't like, 
together with their dependencies. With aptitude (and "apt-cache search" 
in a second terminal) this works best in my experience.

regards,
Guido