* Michael Schierl schierlm-public@gmx.de [20061229 00:58]:
Michael Prokop schrieb:
- T mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20061228 00:15]:
The reason that I'm asking is that after 'aptitude purge evms', I found the libevms-2.5 is still in the system.
Run 'deborphan' to remove unnecessary packages from your system.
I guess the point "T" wants to make is that aptitude tracks which packages have been installed manually and which have been installed automatically (i. e. to fulfill dependencies). Automatically installed packages will be uninstalled as soon as they are no longer needed.
I'm aware of the fact. :)
You can change this flag manually if you want to: Usually I select the "libs" category in aptitude and press "M" to mark all packages in it as autoMatically installed. I don't know how this can be done (for the whole category) on the command line.
Ah, thanks for the hint. (I usually don't use the graphical interface of aptitude but only the cmdline version.)
Use deborphan and debfoster to clean up your system if that's what you want to do.
I did not use deborphan since Debian Woody, since aptitude does the job as well for me.
aptitude is a good choice, yes. But at the time when I started to work on grml aptitude had some annoying issues and nowadays aptitude is just too time consuming for some of my tasks. That's why I often still use apt-get. ;)
regards, -mika-