Friday·14·March·2008
Axel’s Cruftiness Theorem //at 19:37 //by abe
Theorem: If aptitude is used, set to automatically
remove unneeded packages and every not willingly installed package is
marked auto, the system’s
cruftiness is always 0.
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Re: Axel's Cruftiness Theorem
Posted by: Matthew W. S. Bell Website: Time: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:53 No, that's the automatic cruftiness. Doesn't mean you haven't installed a load of packages that you don't need...
Re: Axel's Cruftiness Theorem
Posted by: Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber Website: http://blog.zugschlus.de/ Time: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:49 The hard thing is to start using aptitude. When I converted to aptitude, I marked all packages as "automatically installed" (which caused aptitude to want to uninstall the entire system) and then manually selected the packages I wanted to keep.
Is there any easier way to convert over from a conventionally maintained system which has all packages marked as "manually installed"?
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Re: Axel's Cruftiness Theorem
Objection!
That's a conjecture, not a theorem. I'll believe it when I see the mechanically checkable proof. ;-)
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