PACKAGES aptitude

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:11:22 -0500, "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> said:

    > Does it make any difference what order the packages are listed in a package 
    > config file? I like to sort my lists of packages to make it easier to avoid 
    > mistakes. But I'm not sure I should be doing that.
I'm not sure if aptitude's dependency resolver cares about the order
of package names. I would not try to sort them alphabetical. Inside
the packages_config files I sort them by topics. I group my base
packages and some additional network packages and my Debian tools, and
so on. 

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regards Thomas