Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-29, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 04/28/2015 09:51 PM, Marco Segura wrote: I think use aptitude or apt is more a personal decision than any other thing, however I believe aptitude is more powerful. -- Marco T. Segura M. «Cuando naciste, todos reían y solo tu

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-29 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:21:53AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: I actually miss the good'ol days of dselect. Apart from that I've been using a combination of apt for small tasks and synaptic for large numbers of packages. For me, those good old days never ended. I still use dselect. :) --

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-28 Thread Marco Segura
I think use aptitude or apt is more a personal decision than any other thing, however I believe aptitude is more powerful. -- Marco T. Segura M. «Cuando naciste, todos reían y solo tu llorabas, asegurate que al morir, todos lloren y solo tu rías.» Confucio On Mon,

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-28 Thread Doug
On 04/28/2015 09:51 PM, Marco Segura wrote: I think use aptitude or apt is more a personal decision than any other thing, however I believe aptitude is more powerful. -- Marco T. Segura M. «Cuando naciste, todos reían y solo tu llorabas, asegurate que al morir, todos lloren y solo tu

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:40:37 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 27 April 2015 11:35:42 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:22:33AM -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: I'm considering going back to apt, even though most of the

apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:22:33AM -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: I'm considering going back to apt, even though most of the advice I've read on apt vs aptitude leans in favor of the latter. After this experience, I've lost trust in

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 27 April 2015 11:35:42 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:22:33AM -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: I'm considering going back to apt, even though most of the advice I've read on apt vs aptitude leans in favor of the

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Francisco M Neto
I actually miss the good'ol days of dselect. Apart from that I've been using a combination of apt for small tasks and synaptic for large numbers of packages. On 04/27/2015 08:21 AM, Teresa e Junior wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:40:37 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 27 April 2015 11:35:42

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
I think the reason some prefer apt is that aptitude has more finely grained dependency handling and the dependencies have grown tremendously over the years (over 40,000 discrete packages now). Even though apt will not break anything, it's never a bad idea to use aptitude as it always offer

Re: non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-26 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:35:29 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Candidate:

Re: non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-26 Thread Kynn Jones
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:35:29 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: $ apt-cache

Re: non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-25 Thread Teresa e Junior
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:35:29 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Candidate: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Version table: *** 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 0 500

non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-25 Thread Kynn Jones
I'm trying really, really, really hard to keep my system mostly within stable, but I must be doing something completely wrong, because at the moment my system is infested with 100 packages that are not from stable, and that I am 10% certain I did not explicitly install. These uninvited

Re: non-stable packages infestation

2015-04-25 Thread Kynn Jones
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:35:29 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Candidate: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Version table: *** 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 0