On Monday 19 January 2015 14:42:01 Joe did opine And Gene did reply: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:54:57 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference > > between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? > > > > Synaptic would have literally torn down the system, removing libc6, > > most of build-essentials among many many others. I like synaptic, > > but that difference is an eye opener for sure. > > By default, Synaptic arrives with everything turned on: it does a > full-upgrade/dist-upgrade, it treats recommends as dependencies, etc. > > All of this can be disabled, just as it can be enabled in apt-get or > aptitude.
Found that in the prefs. Unfortunately I sic'd a root session of htop out to kill it 10 minutes later as it was frozen, using 96 to 98% of a cpu core steadily. Ran it with a sudo as usual, but a sigterm was of no effect, had to use a sigkill. And when restarted, nothing had been changed. twice in a row just to check. Is this known in synaptic-0.63.1? > Horses for courses: they all do the same basic job, but with slightly > different features. If I want to install, remove or purge a single > application I know about, or do a routine upgrade, I normally use > aptitude non-interactively. Nearly all my upgrade work is with > unstable, and that does get into difficult situations from time to > time, when some packages can't be upgraded without significant > removals. I usually switch to Synaptic then, in which I find I can > most easily set up the combinations of upgradable packages which work. > > I upgrade my unstable workstation pretty much every day, but I have > three or four other unstables which are used much more rarely, and get > upgraded every few months, when I have the time. Aptitude is good at > sorting out dependencies, supposedly still better than apt-get, but if > you throw five or six hundred upgrades at it, it does often freak out > and it sits there literally for hours working out combinations... so > for these large-scale upgrades, an apt-get upgrade followed by a > dist-upgrade seems to be the optimal choice. I don't generally do these > occasional upgrades while there is a pending problem with unstable, so > I don't usually have difficulties. While I seem to have an attractant for them. :( Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- 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/201501191520.02296.ghesk...@wdtv.com