[lug] Daily system crash....

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Sun Feb 3 13:52:51 MST 2008


David Morris wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:06:30PM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
>> I keep telling people that aptitude is the killer app in
>> package  management.  All packages that I specifically
>> care about are marked  "installed by me".  All others are
>> marked "installed due to  dependencies".  Then removing
>> packages and all their depends is easy.
> 
> Just as an FYI, with Debian Lenny, this functionality has
> been merged with apt-get.

I see that in the changelog, do you have any references discussing the 
change?  Be interesting to know whether both programs track things the 
same way.

Dave



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