Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current aptitude, by contrast, seems both powerful and elegant: it > rarely gets in my way, deals well with problem situations, and offers > powerful features should I want them (aptitude of years past could also > be kinda cranky though).
The last time I used aptitude (about six months ago, from Testing), I found it difficult to specify how I wanted dependencies (including recommends and suggests) to be satisfied. I like that fact that when I select a package in dselect which has several ways of satisfying its dependencies, dselect lets me choose what gets installed. Just because a package depends on a web server doesn't mean I want apache installed. While aptitude does tell you what it's going to install, and gives you an opportunity to change it, I couldn't get it to give me a list of acceptable alternatives. I am willing to accept that this might just be down to my own stupidity though. Roger (Sorry if I've broken the thread; I'm reading the web archive.)
