On Wednesday 04 June 2008 00:35:08 Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Miroslav Lichvar
<mlichvar(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've put together a small ncurses application for removing unnecessary
> packages and their dependencies from the system.
If you create a full featured clone of aptitude on top of yum/rpm I will
love you long time. Aptitude is the most awesome tool I have ever seen for
cleaning up package cruft and interactively resolving arcane dep problems.
Why can't yum's dep resolving be instantaneous? ;)
Is there any recent success in getting aptitude itself to run on Fedora? It
worked long ago in the days of FC3 but then it broke with newer versions of
apt-rpm..
I don't know about aptitude, but I use apt as my package manager. Synaptic is a
great GUI for managing packages with apt, but I hardly ever use it (it works
when I do though). One of the first things I do with a fresh install is `yum
install synaptic`.
--Ben