Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: [SOLVED] Remove configuration files

[Bruno Miguel]

A Friday 31 October 2008 22:57:02, James Freer escreveu:
> I'd agree that the dependency resolver is superior. But why do most
> folk use apt-get? apt-get is a pain to go through the manual on but
> there are so many switches etc that with knowledge i reckon carefully
> studied it is a better bet. Finding orphaned packages one can use
> deborphan or gtk-orphan (graphical).

I don't know the reasons that other people have, but I mostly use apt-get 
because it was the first package managment tool I was introduced to. Now, 
sometimes I use wajig, which, in my non-technical opinion, handles orphaned 
packages well.