-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/07 17:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:43:28 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> On 09/21/07 10:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 09/21/07 00:43, Miles Bader wrote: >>>>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> The archives are replete with very valid reasons why people don't >>>>>> trust aptitude. >>>>> Not really. A lot of vague rumors flying about though. >>>> Vague rumors to you, first-hand experience to me. >>> I know you, and many others, have had trouble with aptitude, but I >>> feel its important to point out that aptitude does what one tells it >>> too. Now, one may be unintentionally telling it to do something one >>> doesn't want, but that is another issue. > >> "# aptitude upgrade" doesn't mean "remove GNOME, perl and everything >> they depend on". > > And that has not happened to me. Seems like if that is hte best > solution aptitude came up with for you, the package state on that > machine was strange; and that would mean surely things will rise up and > bite you at some later point.
But at the same time, "#apt-get upgrade" worked perfectly. > If ever aptitude (and not, thankfully, apt, in Sid) try and > delete hug swaths of stuff, it would well behoove you to find out > why -- usually, it is a Sid issue, and goes away after new processing, > or the next upload, or something. Like I said, apt-get never wanted to remove packages. Sometimes it would hold back *lots* of packages, but never remove them. >>> Thankfully, we have choice in the matter and can use the >>> package-manager of choice. :) > >> This is true. > > Now that libapt has gotten the same algorithms aptitude uses, > perhaps apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic behaviour will be closer to > each others than it has been in the past. I've noticed recently that now apt-get occasionally *suggests* that certain obsolete packages be remove. And that's good. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9EwVS9HxQb37XmcRAnCiAKDBoZAuEuoFIU7eqH12PzlHZijYVwCg15NW as8DhcbB6dnzGtR/3ZIYl6Q= =/sqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]