apt and aptitude

[Florian Diesch]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:59:18PM -0400, Jason Wilson wrote:
>> Which is better and why?  Steve, you mentioned that you suggested aptitude 
>> over apt. How come?
>
>     The main reason is that aptitude will mark packages it has automatically
> installed as such.  It then will track the dependacies against that package
> and if no packages depend on it then it will automatically be removed.

Recent versions of libapt do that, too, and at least apt-get and
synaptic support it.


   Florian
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