El mié, 30-12-2009 a las 21:46 +0100, Javier Barroso escribió: > Hi, > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Consultores Agropecuarios > <consultor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > El mié, 30-12-2009 a las 00:20 +0100, Robert David escribió: > >> Did you consider using aptitude as your main package manager?? It will > >> solve > >> these problems easily. I just hold packages that I need to be hold and > >> aptitude works great. > >> > >> I dont understand why so many people today use pure apt-get for everyday > >> package management. > >> > >> Robert. > > > > I prefer apt-get and dselect, because they are simply clear. As example, > > aptitude used the command # aptitude upgrade, but now it is aptitude > > safe-upgrade; it is absolutely absurd, because the word "safe" can have > > any meaning except safe! if i use safe-upgrade, it installs buggy > > packages, then where is the safe-upgrade?
> safe-upgrade == aptitude won't install any new package, only will > upgrade your packages to newer versions when it won't require > installing new dependencies, which are less buggy generally than > older. > You are having troubles with "generally", which include by itself that something "buggy" could go on it. And, again with "i prefer", it means, "i have chosen", then i am not asking for your opinion or viewpoint! > aptitude curses interface help you when you have many versions of the > same package to choose the version and its deppends. Browsing packages > there, is a great feature , you can sort packages with any criterion. > You can also browse between various solutions if no one is the frankly > winner. > > With aptitude you can search even by maintainer, upgradable packages > or many other criteria [1] > > > > > Another example is when i use apt-buglist or something similar; aptitude > > offers me many unclear options, and the most options offered are totally > > unclear. > Reporting whishlist level bugs about that 'unclear' options could help > to improve these options descriptions Yes, but for the people who are interested on it; i am not one of them! > > [1] > http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html > > PD: Of course you can play minesweeper too :) : > http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s05.html > > PS: I could not know, what part of the text should be eliminated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org