[The Wanderer] > it is IMO not viable for actual use - except perhaps by people who > already know completely what they are doing and how to override > aptitude's suggestions.
That sounds like you believe aptitude has only a command-line interface. Mostly I use its full-screen interface. (To see this interface, launch it with no arguments.) What would you suggest as a replacement for that? dselect? I did use dselect for many years, only reluctantly switching to aptitude, but I have no desire to go back. > Does aptitude include an equivalently functional analog for apt-cache? Well, the things I use most - the 'show' and 'search' functions - are certainly in aptitude, but apt-cache has a dozen other subcommands and I don't know whether aptitude implements those in some way. > I'd been told that apt-get was deprecated in favor of aptitude and > I'd seen that aptitude did not seem to have equivalents for the > apt-cache commands. Deprecating /usr/bin/apt-get is not the same as deprecating the whole apt package, including /usr/bin/apt-cache. If anyone said the entire apt package was deprecated, I think they were misinformed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150401160242.ga4...@p12n.org
