On Vi, 19 oct 12, 08:05:46, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Oh well. I mean obviously people are free to use what they want, I > just cannot understand why anyone would use apt-* when there is > aptitude. And 90% of the time I use interactive mode, which doesn't > exist *at all* in apt-*, and when I do use the CLI, one command for > installing searching, etc. is more convent than several.
As a heavy aptitude user I use apt-(get|cache) because they are significantly faster at what they do. I also don't know of a replacement for 'apt-cache policy [package]'. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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