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[Matthew Byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aptitude will remove the package and ALL dependencies that are not being
used as well which is where i think all the extra stuff is coming from. Now
im limited in my verse with aptitude so i cannot specify why its grabbing
at vlc as such but this is what i see it doing which is why it pulls so
many more packages. Apt-get autoremove usually gives the same. (IIRC)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:52 AM, ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Immediately I notice some very strange things being removed:
>
> virtual-box
> vlc
>
> Worst of all:
>
> tcpd
>
> This is why I don't use aptitude. I'm sure there is some sort of setting
> telling it to do what it is doing but this is indicitive of my experience
> with aptitude. It's got a user friendly interface but is not necessarily
> user friendly.
>
> wxl/walter
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Dec 22, 2011 8:43 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> one for the those who like the subtle differences between apt-get and
> aptitude.
>
> Removing Chromium using the two different commands provides massively
> different results. This was 1st reported on IRC and the pastebin [1] of the
> output is now available. If one of the 'guru's could take a look at it,
> it's way beyond my limited expertise!
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill
>
> [1] http://paste.ubuntu.com/778561/
>
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