On Jan 24, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Eugene Agafonov wrote: >> Is it possible to only install "aptitude" package without "apt" >> package >> on a Debian based distribution like Maemo ? apt-* utils are in the >> "apt" >> package, but apparently, "Depends:" of "aptitude" package does not >> require apt, but just somes libraries of APT system. > I think so: aptitude uses libapt, not apt it self, but 'wasting' disk > space on desktiop is minimal. > It looks like apt-* is directly used by Hildon Application Manager. > > When I started porting aptitude on Maemo I supposed to use in mostly > in Scrachebox/Maemo SDK, not on real device. > I really hate apt-get/cache in Scratchbox (compare output of > 'apt-cache search' and 'aptitude search' )
If you don't like the search output from those two tools, you may want to look at apt-file. From the man page: "apt-file is a command line tool for searching files in packages for the APT package management system." I find it to be the "canonical" source for finding packages on my system. Written in perl, it is a 600 line program, so it is fairly light-weight, though I suspect it's cache is rather heavy, (on my machine it comes in at 14 megs, but I am running it on a x86 desktop.) Your mileage might vary if you have a smaller system. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
