[Wylug-help] Debian package confusion upgrade vs dist-upgrade

Jim Jackson jj at franjam.org.uk
Thu Sep 11 21:28:30 UTC 2008




On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Chris Davies wrote:

> PS You might want to move from apt-get to aptitude. Similar command line
> interface but it handles package dependencies better: if you have a package X
> with dependency Y, it will remove the unused package Y for you if you remove
> package X

You mean like running

   apt-get autoremove

periodically?

Jim



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