Make Aptitude respect get-selections list

Solution 1:

Several things come to mind:

• Standardise on one tool or the other. There are plenty of things that the two tools don't really agree on (are they even using the same autoremove database yet?). Pick one, alias the other one to "echo Use $OTHER_TOOL, you tool"
• You should use pinning; it's far more awesome.
• I'd strongly recommend giving configuration management a try. Several hundred servers? No wonder stuff's breaking everywhere.
• More documentation, less cowboy.
• Chase up http://bugs.debian.org/146207 (and it's many, many merged bugs) to try and get aptitude fixed.