[lug] Daily system crash....
David Morris
lists at morris-clan.net
Sun Feb 3 14:01:29 MST 2008
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:52:51PM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 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.
No clue, but they do use the same storage mechanism as I get
the same packages marked as manually installed with either
interface.
--David
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