[clue-tech] Interesting sidux/smxi news

[David L. Anselmi]

Keith Hellman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:08:24PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
>> More interesting to me is the allusion here:
>>
>> http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1091.html
>>
>> that synaptic knows about auto and manual installs.
> 
> I haven't actually read the link, but I have the impression that apt-get 
> has this knowledge, because it provides the autoremove target, which
> if the description is correct, only removes cruft that was
> autoinstalled.

That's the way I read the man page, but I've been away from apt-get for 
a long time.  So it's cool that it is improving.

The next improvement will be to have all 3 (aptitude, synaptic, apt-get) 
keep their memory in the same place so you can switch between them.

Dave