On Monday, April 08, 2013 11:02:27, Eugene Lychauka wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.htm > l#pkgmgmt > > Here we can read: > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive command line interface for > package management, it is recommended to use apt-get." > > What is meant by interactive interface and non-interactive interface > here? I understand it as typing "aptitude install foo" is > non-interactive interface, and the text-user interface of aptitude > launched by typing "aptitude" is interactive interface. Am I right?
Yes. aptitude has an interactive interface available, apt-get does not. I think the point of the note in the release-notes is to point users to aptitude for an interactive terminal package manager, rather than dselect. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304081133.51858.chris.kna...@coredump.us
