Until some weeks ago I used to use only apt-get, and then I realized that aptitude is better in taking care of orphan packages. I am no expert here, but this is the way I think they both work, at least on Debian Etch, I have heard that in Lenny both works more or less the same, I use Lenny, and yes they can do the same thing but in different ways. Well when you install a package with apt-get, and that packages needs other packages due to dependencies, it will install all of them for you, which is great, but then when you want to remove the installed package, apt-get will let the automatically installed packages in your PC, while aptitude will rid them away. Aptitude marks all installed packages as "manual installed" and "automatically installed", the first are those you explicitly ask it to install and the latter are those which it decided to install by you, because they are needed, so when you ask aptitude to remove a package it will remove also the automatical...
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