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
On Ma, 31 mar 15, 17:29:25, Andrew Shadura wrote:
Hi,
On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu 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
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 mentioning a
[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 see
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm 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
(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
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
Hi there,
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 to have two CLI package management tools installed, is
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 cales...@scientia.net 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
Hi,
On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu 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
On 03/31/2015 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
Hi,
On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu
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
2015-03-31 15:18 GMT+02:00 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org:
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
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 recommended
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 Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:32 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm 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,
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:14:16 +0200, Fabian Greffrath
fab...@greffrath.com 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
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 need to
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 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 the main
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 recommended for
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?
Aptitude
+++ 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 mzagr...@d.umn.edu
wrote:
Thus, I believe there are a couple of knobs to turn to make
aptitude behave more expectedly.
Here is it:
$ cat
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