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[Vincent Trouilliez]

"Tommy Trussell" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> For someone comfortable with the command line, aptitude has some real
> advantages over synaptic. It's also a bit easier for managing
> dependencies than apt alone. For example, I believe if you've used it
> to install new packages, when you remove them it will also remember to
> remove any dependent "orphan" packages.

Apt-get has been improved recently, it can now remove all unused
dependencies when un-installing a package, thanks to a new command line
option: "--auto-remove". 
I noticed that it works even when the package has been installed
through Synaptic. 

> Personally I don't like aptitude's text-based (curses) package browser
> interface -- I find its navigation commands confusing.

Indeed, a text UI would be great, but the current one is so horrible
and confusing that I never ever use it and find the command line much
easier. I guess that means a lot, because I am hardly a command line
fetishist. Making a user friendly text UI could be a great Google
Summer of Code project...

--
Vince