On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> > You cannot break anything
> >by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
> >neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
> >a tool which integrates the functionality of apt-get, apt-cache, etc.
> >into one utility with an optional ncurses-GUI and a broader repertoire
> >for the resolution of dependency problems.
>
> Hm, I tried aptitude and found that you won't know what's going on
> anymore and that it tries to do things to packages you won't want it to
> do and that it's impossible to prevent that and very difficult, if not
> impossible, to make it install the packages you want. When using it
> after a fresh install, it appears to leave you with a totally broken system.
>
> In other words: Aptitude just utterly sucked, so I went back to dselect.
With all the talk about aptitude and synaptic being the Ultimate way to
go, I'm glad to see other people using apt-get from the command line and
dselect for a front-end. I learned dselect and couldn't get myself to
learn aptitude, so I guess I would say dselect's easier to use ;)
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