On Monday 21 February 2005 10:44, Anders Ellensh�j Andersen wrote: > > What are you trying to say here? > > That aptitude is shit? > Yeah! Wanna make something of it :-)
No, seriously, it probably works, but it _doesn't_ play well with apt-get. > - It's not, it rocks! And Aptitude keeps my holds. You must have been > using an old version that had some kind of bug. It hasn't always been as > predictable as it is now. I don't think so. I believe it ignores holds made with dpkg, but provides much more flexible management within itself. So, I play with sid - with daily upgrades - and every now and then get burned by a bad package. I back it out, reinstall the old one, and put it on hold until I see a different new package in sid. I'm sure I could learn to do this purely in aptitude, but when I last tried aptitude and it immediately replace a 'held' package, I tossed it. ... > That you don't get all of arts, with just kdebase and kdelibs? > > - Well I am not 100% sure, but I feel like I remember that after selecting > kdelibs and kdebase, also selecting arts will not install any further > packages, besides the arts metapackage. I suppose it's possible :-) I have a kde-free ubuntu installation that I was going to play with at lunchtime, I'll take a look there to see. -- derek
