Am Montag, 26. Juni 2017, 15:46:00 CEST schrieb Hans: I am responsing to myself. Just checked aptitude wiki. It is already well documented (what I did not know, yet), so there is no further agreement necessary. On the other hand, it is good to see, that my experiences are made by other people, too. So I can exclude my own dumbness. :)
All this does not inhibit one thing: making debian better and better (although it might be already the best operating system on earth). Best regards and happy hacking Hans > > Hans writes: > Interesting! I did not notice apt, just used apt-get, apt-cache and so on. > Just read the manual of apt. However, aptitude has also its worth, as for me > it is faster to see, which dependencies are existent for the packages. I > like ncurses-guis. > > Same is related to synaptic, which is good to fix dependency problems. > However, as far as I know, synaptic is just a frontend for aptitude and > apt. > > I do not want to blame any of these tools, as they might all have their > goods and bads. But it would be nice, if we could agree to ONE tool, which > is to be used for dist-upgrades. > > And this should be well documented! At the moment IMO there are too many > tools and that makes it very confusing, doesn't it? > > Ok,. now we have about 2 years, to find the best way till the next "stable". > > Best > > Hans