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Aptitude handles package removal, especially orphaned dependencies much better. I think it's now included in the Debian base system, so there's very little rea
by monkeyfacebag 15y ago
Aptitude handles package removal, especially orphaned dependencies much better. I think it's now included in the Debian base system, so there's very little reason to prefer apt.
- saghul 15y agoI actually use apt-get because I like to keep my system with the least amount of packages installed. I don't need any of the "recommended" packages, and if I do I'd install them manually. Also, I usually use deborphan to find orphaned packages and remove them, if apt-get autoremove didn't find them.
- Tobu 15y agoRecommends are handled the same way by both tools nowadays. There are configuration options and flags to switch them off it you prefer.
- sciurus 15y agoYou probably already know this, but apt-get defaults to installing recommended packages since Debian Lenny. Ubuntu may have been doing it for longer. To disable this, you have to set 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' in apt.conf
- technomancy 15y agoI tried switching to aptitude, but the fact that its search defaults to OR for terms rather than AND made it completely unusable. I guess I could keep using apt-cache for searching and aptitude for installation/removal though.
- stouset 15y agoWhat? Its search is a regex, plain and simple.