On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict > > > > resolution completely obvious, but the information is there. > > > > > > Aptitude shouldn't be used until its fundamental breakages are resolved. > > It ignores the status file in favor of its own re-implementation of it.
That's not really a problem, other than #137771, which I assume will be fixed some day. > Its behavior regarding dependency resolution is different depending on > whether you're using it from the command line or the ncurses interface. Bug number? I've never seen this myself, and don't really care anyway since I do any dependency resolution in the ncurses interface. > It's claimed that aptitude is a drop-in replacement for apt-get, except Claimed by whom? > that aptitude by default installs Recommends/Suggests, while apt-get only > tells you about them. By default it installs recommends but not suggests, which is pretty sane to me. I guess all of your problems with aptitude have to do with the command-line interface. It seems rather foolish to complain about that though, since if your using it you're missing out on pretty much all of the power and usefulness of aptitude. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]