On 18-12-16 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> well, the suse complaint is gone now.
>
> aptitude still tries to install a huge set of unwanted packages.
> apt works just fine.
>
> Is there some aptitude-only status file that I could just delete so
> that aptitude has to recostruct it from apt-get's data?

|aptitude --clean-on-startup

According to the manpage should clean the cache. I only use apt so i did
not test it.|
>
> Would it help to uninstall and purge aptitude and then install it
> again using apt? Or would I end up risking borking the system's
> package management?
>
> -- hendrik
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