Am Montag, den 16.02.2009, 12:17 +0100 schrieb Mauro de Wit: > Of course I see the benefits of the apt system on linux; on my ubuntu > server it is a blessing being able to install all software trough the > repos. But on my Ubuntu desktop, I have other expectations and I want > to kwow exactly what is going on in there. Synaptic can list the contents of installed packages. It just doesn't do so by default (at least the last time I checked), because almost nobody cares.