Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (2015-04-02 21:52:50)
> In this era of wider displays (even text-mode), it would make a lot of
> sense to change its default display filter to include the archive by
> default.
>
> FWIW, here's the display format I use in aptitude (changeable through
> the Op
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 16:43, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 04/01/2015 at 12:02 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > That sounds like you believe aptitude has only a command-line
> > interface.
>
> I was indeed only aware of its command-line interface, until just
> yesterday; comments in this thread mentio
On Ma, 31 mar 15, 17:29:25, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > I've grepped debian-devel, but cannot find an email that was sent to
> > the list some months ago about tweaks to /etc/apt/apt.conf (IIRC) to
> > make aptitude behave more sanely.
>
2015-04-01 20:43 The Wanderer:
(Sorry for the delay in replying; I had a response within minutes, but
I've been having bizarre Internet-access issues all day, and I'm not
even sure they're gone yet.)
On 04/01/2015 at 12:02 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[The Wanderer]
it is IMO not viable for ac
(Sorry for the delay in replying; I had a response within minutes, but
I've been having bizarre Internet-access issues all day, and I'm not
even sure they're gone yet.)
On 04/01/2015 at 12:02 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [The Wanderer]
>
>> it is IMO not viable for actual use - except perhaps by
The Wanderer writes:
> I remember, years ago, I asked on some Debian list what the intended
> replacement for apt-cache was, since I'd been told that apt-get was
> deprecated in favor of aptitude and I'd seen that aptitude did not seem
> to have equivalents for the apt-cache commands.
For a whil
[The Wanderer]
> it is IMO not viable for actual use - except perhaps by people who
> already know completely what they are doing and how to override
> aptitude's suggestions.
That sounds like you believe aptitude has only a command-line
interface. Mostly I use its full-screen interface. (To se
On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 19:34 -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Note that this does not seem to be due to a lack of people willing to
> work on it though, cf. #750135.
Yeah, I was following that bug in silence ;-)
Cheers,
Chris.
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On Mar 31 2015, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 23:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> No, it is not. It used to be, but apt's dependency resolver is far
>> superior to aptitude's these days.
> Are there so many cases where you need it? I usually just select what I
> want
+++ The Wanderer [2015-03-31 11:36 -0400]:
> On 03/31/2015 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> > On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny
> > wrote:
> >> Thus, I believe there are a couple of knobs to turn to make
> >> aptitude behave more expectedly.
> >
> > Here is it:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/ap
On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 23:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> No, it is not. It used to be, but apt's dependency resolver is far
> superior to aptitude's these days.
Are there so many cases where you need it? I usually just select what I
want and install it...
IMHO aptitude is one of the hearts of
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:18:50AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 05:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard, i.e.
> > why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian installation?
> >
> > Ap
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> It's tangential to the main topic of this thread, but you might want to
> give /usr/bin/apt a try: it abstracts over apt-get / apt-cache, offering
> a single CLI entry point to (some of) the functionalities of both.
I've used the new apt tool, and I do find it quite an
On 03/31/2015 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny
> wrote:
>
>> I've grepped debian-devel, but cannot find an email that was sent
>> to the list some months ago about tweaks to /etc/apt/apt.conf
>> (IIRC) to make aptitude behave more sanely.
>
Hi,
On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> I've grepped debian-devel, but cannot find an email that was sent to
> the list some months ago about tweaks to /etc/apt/apt.conf (IIRC) to
> make aptitude behave more sanely.
> Thus, I believe there are a couple of knobs to turn to make ap
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> Repeatedly over the years - I'd almost say consistently - I've seen
> aptitude report that a requested package change (install, remove, or
> some combination) would result in an invalid or conflicting dependency
> situation, and suggest a sol
On 03/31/2015 at 09:18 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 05:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>
>> I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard,
>> i.e. why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian
>> installation?
>>
>> Aptitude isn't
2015-03-31 15:18 GMT+02:00 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh :
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 05:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard, i.e.
>> why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian installation?
>>
>> Aptitude isn't recommended f
Am 31.03.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 05:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard, i.e.
>> why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian installation?
>>
>> Aptitude isn't recommend
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 10:22, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:18:50AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > apt-get is the simple tool everyone knows about, though. It also needs
> > another simple tools like apt-cache to be really usable.
>
> It's tangential to th
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:18:50AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> apt-get is the simple tool everyone knows about, though. It also needs
> another simple tools like apt-cache to be really usable.
It's tangential to the main topic of this thread, but you might want to
give /usr/bin/apt
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 05:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard, i.e.
> why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian installation?
>
> Aptitude isn't recommended for dist-upgrading since Lenny, I think.
>
> Do we really nee
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:14:16 +0200, Fabian Greffrath
wrote:
>I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard, i.e.
>why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian installation?
>
>Aptitude isn't recommended for dist-upgrading since Lenny, I think.
>
>Do we really need
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