[lug] Beagle

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Dec 11 00:52:54 MST 2006


Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 08:06:42PM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 
>> Why does 31 packages matter, especially on Etch?  It's one command to 
>> put them on and one to take them off.
> 
> In my experience, that's not necessarily true in practice.  I still haven't
> gotten the hang of aptitude (actually, I find it highly unintuitive so I
> haven't felt like learning it), and if you don't use aptitude it's easy to end
> up with a lot of orphaned dependencies cluttering up your system over time.

What specifically are you having trouble with in aptitude?  Maybe we can 
help.

(I wouldn't want to be WITHOUT it!)  :-)

Nate



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