Re: subtle difference between package managers

2005-07-15 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Marty wrote: It's not really a case of subtle differences between equivalent tools. That seems to be a common (and, I think hazardous) misunderstanding. It is and it isn't; see below. :) Aptitude is an apt front-end, which makes it a functional (proper) superset of apt

Re: subtle difference between package managers

2005-07-15 Thread Marty
John Hasler wrote: Marty writes: Aptitude is an apt front-end... Apt-get is also an apt front-end. Apt is a library. I meant apt the debian package and the tools therein, including apt-get, but the hair-splitters will probably take issue with that statement as well. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: subtle difference between package managers

2005-07-15 Thread John Hasler
Marty writes: > Aptitude is an apt front-end... Apt-get is also an apt front-end. Apt is a library. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: subtle difference between package managers

2005-07-15 Thread Marty
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: >with all three of them at the same time (apt, aptitude, and synaptic). >That's what I am doing now. I started off with apt-get, then I got to >know aptitude, which adds a

subtle difference between package managers (was: Re: xorg in sid)

2005-07-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > >with all three of them at the same time (apt, aptitude, and synaptic). > >That's what I am doing now. I started off with apt-get, then I got to > >know aptitude, which adds a few nice tri