Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:07 -0500, Edward Diener wrote: >> Can Synaptic be used successfully on CentOS 4.4 instead of YumEx ? Are >> there any issues using Synaptic with the CentOS 4.4 repositories ? >> > > There is a version of apt and synaptic for i386 in the extras > repository... however I would not recommend it. There are many plugins > for yum that work with yem/yumex that do not work for apt (fastest > mirror, protectbase, etc.,) > > So, things like 3rd Party repos and the like become more dangerous in > apt that with yum on CentOS. > > Also, apt is ONLY for 1386 distro as the version we have does not do > multilib arches. The reason I asked is because YumeEx 1.02 does not show the packages which depend on a given package when I specify a package I want to remove. In Synaptic when I specify that I want to remove a package I am immediately shown the packages which depend on it and if I proceed to remove it, Synaptic automatically removes those packages, but I can choose to Cancel the removal immediately. It may be that in YumEx, after adding a package to be removed to the Queue, does prompt one about the other packages which depend on that package and automatically removes when I process the Queue, letting me back out of the removal once I am prompted, but I did not try it for fear that I might remove a package needed by other packages. In general I try to keep packages at a minimum for what I will actually be using on a Linux system, and after an installation I go through the packages installed and remove any extraneous ones. YumEx appears to make this much harder than Synaptic. That is why I was hoping that I could use Synaptic instead.