PACKAGES remove

[Toomas Tamm]

On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 12:04 +0200, Thilo Uttendorfer wrote:

>  Also, aptitude removes auto-installed 
> packages while apt-get won't do that (you need to execute "apt-get 
> autoremove"). So I don't really know what will happen to systems that were 
> installed with apt-get. New system installs where you use only aptitude 
> should work but I guess they could differ a little bit from systems installed 
> with apt-get. Maybe someone with deeper knowledge about apt-get/aptitude can 
> clarify this topic?

It may be useful to know that aptitude has a relatively unknown command
"aptitude keep-all" which removes all currently installed packages from
the autoremove list. Thus no packages are autoremoved afterwards.

I once tried to install a complicated mix of packages from different
Debian versions using a script under FAI and there this command was of
use.

Regards,

Toomas Tamm