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[Keith]

On 12/11/23 10:32 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 16:05, Keith <keithw at caramail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm the opposite. I usually just use upgrade because it's more
>> conservative as it only installs new packages when needed, but doesn't
>> remove any. I've been bitten in the past by an overzealous psychotic
>> package manager (aptitude) that removed over half of the installed
>> packages on my system one time because I didn't fully appreciate the
>> consequences of the solution it offered when I wanted remove a gnome
>> application I didn't use. Of course, aptitude is not apt, but I'm still
>> wary of letting the package manager remove a package without me first
>> reviewing the change.
> 
> It won't do anything without asking you whichever command you use,
> assuming you are not using -y.
> 
Yes, as I said I didn't fully appreciate the consequences which is a 
pride-saving euphemism for saying that I didn't have a fricken clue. I 
mean, aptitude selected all those packages for removal so obviously I 
didn't need them, right? Who was I to argue? And I don't even think that 
was the most radical of the 3 solutions I had to choose from. I just 
wanted to remove evolution (I think it was that) because it was slow and 
buggy, not the whole DE and other libraries and programs that I had no 
idea about what their purpose was.

This was way back with Breezy and was my first foray with a Debian based 
disto. I'd previously used Red Hat Linux 5.2, and SUSE Linux 
Professional 9.3 so was a little familiar with rpm's and a package 
manager like YaST but not with debian-base package managers.

Anyway, yes, I quickly learned to not just press enter when presented 
with a [Y/n] prompt. In fact, I regularly use "-s" to simulate apt 
install/remove/upgrade commands before doing the real thing. Just a 
habit now.

-- 
Keith