Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

From: Monique Y. Mudama (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 04/23/04

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:41:52 -0000

    On 2004-04-21, Michael D Schleif penned:
    >
    > I would have been using aptitude long ago, _except_ for this hurdle on
    > my systems:
    >
    > # sudo aptitude -P upgrade
    > Password:
    > Reading Package Lists... Done
    > Building Dependency Tree =20
    > Reading extended state information... Done

    I think this is the relevant part:

    > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:

    Do you have this line in ~/.aptitude/config

    aptitude::Delete-Unused "true";

    ?

    Search for "TRACKING UNUSED PACKAGES" in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README
    for more details. 

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monique
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