On Debian and Fedora experiences

[Matej Cepl]

Toshio Kuratomi scripst:
> How do we address this use case in a sane automated fashion:

aptitude (not apt-get) in Debian remembers somewhere which packages were
installed just to satisfy dependencies (this bit could be edited later,
BTW) and so it was easily possible for me (user of KDE then) to install
Gnome just to check out how it looks, and when I didn't like it, to clear
my computer of all stuff installed just to satisfy dependencies on
gnome-desktop (modulo configuration files). And then I got a job with
company which has Gnome as its main DE ;-). Oh well -- but I have to admit
that when I have to use, I found it is not as bad as I thought.

Matěj

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