[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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