On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 04:36:13PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:58:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > So uninstalling and purging aptitude's configuration looks viable. As long > > as it > > doesn't do nasties like uninstalling grub and wicd, which it was > > threatening to do > > a while ago. > > > > But I might first create myself an up-to-date bootable USB installation > > stick just > > in case. > > > > There are thousands of Debian/Devuan installations out there which > have never used aptitude. I know that, for some misterious reason that > defies my logic, apt-get "is no longer the recommended primary tool" > for package management in Debian, and a similar death-sentence has > been issued for dselect in the same page: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageManagement > > But again, I personally don't see the reason why this should be the > case at all, if we exclude the classic "oh, they are very old cli-only > tools, and anything that is old should become obsolete, sooner or > later, so better sooner than later because we need to reimplement them > in a more complicated and disfunctional way..." > > > The few times I have tried aptitude in the last ten years or so, I > have always ended up with zillions of useless packages installed just > because they were "recommended" or "suggested". It is exactly this > "I-am-a-stupid-but-still-idiotproof-software" a(p|t)titude that I find > very disturbing. > > > Yes, I got myself into an ugly mess. > > > > Not at all. There is nothing that you can't get sorted by using apt-* > and/or dpkg, and a bit of time and patience. Unless you have gone all > the way down to find yourself typing something like "Yes, my dear > apt-get-I-know-everything, I understand very well that by removing > this damn package I will most probably destroy my system, but you know > what? I want you to proceed anyway, immediately, and I also would > appreciate if you could just shut the fuck up and mind your business > in the future!" :D
Now looking for documentation. Every documentation file I find seems to have a slightly different combination of options and commands, so I conclude the ones I found are incomplete or obsolete or both. Where can I find complete documentation for apt-*? In particular, is there an option I can place on an install or remove command that will report what it is going to do without actually doing it? -- hendrik > > My2Cents > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] > [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] > [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] > [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
