Le December 27, 2007 03:26:11 pm Luk Claes, vous avez écrit : > Philippe Cloutier wrote: > > Le December 27, 2007 03:12:22 pm Jose Luis Rivas Contreras, vous avez écrit : > >> Philippe Cloutier wrote: > >>> Package: www.debian.org > >>> Severity: minor > >>> > >>> As its predecessor, http://www.us.debian.org/News/2007/20071227 > >>> contains > >>> > >>> Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the > >>> aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to > >>> one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. > >>> > >>> This can confuse readers about what apt and aptitude are, suggesting > >>> that one can use one or the other. This should probably read "by > >>> pointing the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) (see the sources.list(5) > >>> manual page) to [...]". > >> > >> You can use one or the other, depending on which one you prefer to use. > > > > Actually, you have to use APT, since aptitude uses APT. The problem is > > precisely that the announcement suggests that aptitude does not use APT, > > which is already a common misconception. > > No, aptitude uses libapt... For an enduser he can choose whatever > package manager to use, though we recommend aptitude (or apt). I guess I have not been clear enough about the problem. The announcement says this: "You can use A or B." B being a library used by A, users have to use B anyway, the only choice is to use A or not. Actually, the choice is which APT front-end to use.
It could also be changed to "pointing your favorite package manager (such as aptitude and Synaptic) to [...]" though in reality, you're pointing APT to a source, and you're only pointing your package manager to a source indirectly. The current sentence is a bit like saying that you can use Debian or Linux to replace Windows.
