managing packages on Debian -was- Re: [Discuss] debian

[Lloyd Budd]

On 3/1/07, Lloyd Budd <foolswisdom at gmail.com> wrote:

> aptitude logs all the actions so it can effective remove
> dependencies that are no longer used by any packages or remove
> metapackages.

"Apparently the new version of apt-get in Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10) has a
function that allows you to remove unused dependencies when removing
an application: sudo apt-get autoremove applicationname"
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/aptitude

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