On Thursday 07 June 2007 05:08:56 hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:32:26AM +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:35 -0400, ext maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org wrote: > > > Just wondering -- is aptitude available on maemo? Is the Application > > > Manager perhaps a different UI for aptitude?? > > > > AFIK it's not. > > > > You might wanted to say that Application Manager is different UI for > > apt? > > Yes it is. > > Trust me to ask the worng, but obvious question. > > The big thing that aptitude does that apt and its friends don't is keep > track of dependencies between installed packages -- so that wien you > uninstall a package, other packages that it depends on (and aren't > needed for another purpose) are automatically uninstalled as well. It > has a data base of its own in which it remembers which packages were > explicitly requested and which are just dependencies. > > And the big problem with aptitude is that if you use apt as well as > aptitude, apt never puts the packages apt installed into its data base > as being explicitly requested -- so on various occasions it discovers > they are no longer needed and so proposes to remove them. > > Does the Application manager do these things too? > > -- hendrik if you use apt-get remove and apt-get autoremove that also works. Since that is actually what aptitude runs. Personally I never like aptitudes way of removing since it was a little too behind the back for me. I also don't like how aptitude doesn't use the dpkg database correctly. James
