[OT] Debian details (was: Re: [ltp] Ubuntu Dapper on a22p...)

[Andrew Barr]

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Hi there,

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 20:23, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> The real tool for taking care of package install/update
> is aptitude (and not apt-get!!), and the fact it is a text-ui doesn't make
> it any less powerful.

Since you brought it up, and since we're [OT], I've got a quickie question: 
After I installed Debian, I used aptitude for a while but for reasons lost to 
me I started using synaptic and apt-get again. Now aptitude has a fairly 
sizable list of packages it thinks are unused and will be REMOVED, but which 
are not unused at all (gimp is in there, some python modules), I think 
because it doesn't have records of whether these packages were autoinstalled 
or not. I want to go back to using aptitude but I can't figure out how to get 
around this problem. Hints, suggestions? Thanks!

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