Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:40:29AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Aptitude may be better - it sure does the job. But it spends a lot of > > time at every invocation on "building dependency trees" and "tag > > databases". > > Well yes, aptitude is a huge pig of an object oriented C++ program. > > > It is therefore noticeably slower than apt-get to use for simple tasks > > like installing a single uncontroversial package. Whenever I upgrade a > > single > > package, I get a list of all the not-upgraded packages - I didn't ask > > for that. > > and when it needs to remove something (despite the better resolution) > > I have to confirm several times instead of just once with apt-get. > > I do tend to use apt-get myself just because I am used to typing that > and rather impatient. > > > So, better in some ways, but also much clunkier. If it needs a > > dependency tree and a tag database almost all the time, > > why not keep the information around in a cache? Perhaps an > > "apt-get" or manual "dpkg" might invalidate the cache, but > > the information should at least stay current as long as I use > > aptitude exclusively. That'd make aptitude much more pleasant. > > They are cached, but also have to be updated whenever the available > packages lists change. Well at least some stuff is cached.
Hmm., all these answers did not really solve my problems. I wondered, why aptitude did another choice of installing and uninstalling packages, although both are using the identical database. And if they really do (as you will admit me), how can I make aptitude to behave same as apt-get (relating to the choice of packages) ? I think, for endusers (non technical or Debian newbies), synaptic will be the best choice, rather than apt-* or aptitude. (For most of them, cron-apt is working fine, too). I am using apt-* for easy things, aptitude for upgrades and synaptic, if I am searching for a string or a string in a description. (I found no way, getting full description and packagename with apt-*, as "apt-cache search string -f" only got a part of the description.) Anyway, synaptic is working fine for this case. :) Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
