[plug] Debian Package Management - automatic dependencies

[Shayne O'Neill]

wouldn't you be better off using apt-get install sylpheed and apt-get
remove sylpheed?

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Onno Benschop wrote:

> 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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