-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/08/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:57:39PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Thierry de Coulon: >>> >>> I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to >>> aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... >> >> In addition to the good advice regarding automatically installed >> packages that has already been given I have one question: why do >> you want to use aptitude? I used aptitude for a few years but >> switched back to apt-get after the Release Notes of a release >> recommended to use apt-get for distribution upgrades, not aptitude. >> I have a lot less trouble now. > > Actually 'apt-get' is recommended for major upgrades as in distro > upgrades, but for day to day package mgmt, aptitude is still the > recommended tool. > > FWIW I use both, aptitude has more options. Never used ncurses > aptitude though, can't stand it. Likewise FWIW, I invariably use apt-get, because aptitude routinely recommends dependency-resolution "solutions" which involve not doing anything like what I requested - and indeed often involve removing the very package I requested to be installed - whereas I've never seen any such thing with apt-get. apt-get may be less controllable and less "smart" than aptitude, but it still seems to get things right on the first try most of the time, whereas in my experience aptitude rarely seems to get things right even by the 20th try - or, in the few cases where I've bothered to keep saying "no, try to come up with some other solution" that far, the 200th. Maybe my experience with aptitude is atypical - but it's been consistent across three computers now, over the course of something like a decade, give or take. If anything, it's gotten worse in more recent years. Maybeit's possible to configure aptitude so that it doesn't do that... but if so, I would think that configuration should be the default, because as things stand it seems almost worse than useless for anything but the simplest operations. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTlHz5AAoJEASpNY00KDJrVqwP/0p1MpVhAjN5robHfX9IaYpI apid3txRBcb4XhJXZIJjkqdxVAXWtCxO8ZiLdyMoByPY62pe06Y03ECKT7JRKzuB 076KU4TOmOEnANQ2lrrSNMqQOnZC/otavkMeL45vNgxUDsDAJ8UYm5tUDWFpcqFf uKwcXJBKCm55yDdlt+rAZTXlHC8NKD3XiINXJfMUm6oyUzfyroUHYMQBXUw6qLbz ApPDvex+5LrDiIGUDO0MSarGjkjdWjljoZkpW2EIyF0Sw3l3310Ax1W1zKmGM6uA 8xWH6C4Jf3LO5I7DYaRlAw1Now0IHHh+uG8ETpIzwQSGpoUVqFf4SbEUx8EQ0oBs OLUsRAc9/hsQOu0+LBBKU/VT/zB+ssjLVLT0ikNINdjS2RO9ChxS46r66GZsGW/3 wugPcRJamxGtpyZC0zvjsNXzOUTQHXTXSLXbnUCk4gTDZvJODjx2R5LzaF7D7YRR ZYCWwYNi/I3F1Addg8RkRxB4B5OSqD4a0EgzzBmmyPUn9HSKBw5oNjaDGz1JM4hE SKG1AKFwpYFgvnp2uqwFcL89Xwf6cLbP6p6l3Drb17eA8l3B6MH4RdOgj5rllf6I +OjxEJz16f/XQsL2BCmUQ1NPgh87LU7XhjzryNiYKmTcY2E9b7TzmTLR1W/TDXu1 CbV9I2jpzDwK/Wx8+S11 =J51P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53947cf9.1000...@fastmail.fm
