[plug] Debian Package Management - automatic dependencies

[Onno Benschop]

Nick Bannon wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0800, Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
>
>>I find that aptitude does a reasonable job in this regard most of the
>>time. For instance 'aptitude upgrade' will probably find some unused
>>packages and remove them.
>>
>
>That is to say - aptitude keeps track of whether a package has been
>specifically installed, or whether it was automatically pulled in due
>to some other package's Depends/Recommends.
>
I was excited when I read about aptitude and to test it, over the 
weekend I tried this and did:

    aptitude install sylpheed


The result was that the following packages were installed:

    metamail sharutils sylpheed sylpheed-claws-scripts sylpheed-i18n



But when I did:

    aptitude purge sylpheed


It only wanted to remove sylpheed. Instead I had to do:

    apt-get --purge remove metamail sharutils sylpheed
    sylpheed-claws-scripts sylpheed-i18n



Did I miss anything, or do I need to set something up, because I was 
expecting that aptitude would take care of it.

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