Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2005 05:45 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Prior to Sarge aptitude was not the recommended package management > tool. The common program was apt-get or dselect. But following the > recommendations in the release notes one will convert to using > aptitude, at least for the upgrade from Woody to Sarge. So really at > that point they both have to at least tolerate each other. In Sarge > aptitude is recommended. > > Just the same, I can't see any documentation that says mixing apt-get > and aptitude is bad. (i.e. It should not break your system.) It just > means that aptitude won't log the installation to the aptitude log > file. Aptitude won't know that a package was requested by the admin > and may offer it up for removal as an orphan later. And apt-get may > not be as capable of resolving certain installations or upgrades where > aptitude is able to handle the case.
You may be right but aptitude is still very buggy. Yesterday, it wanted to remove all my -dev packages because of "unresolved dependencies". apt-get had a different idea about that and after upgrading with apt-get, aptitude forgot about it, too. The view of why a package is going to be removed is not useful in such a case because it does not work recursive, you'll have to find out manually which is often not easy. Additionally, aptitude has some problems with pinning. A combination of apt-get and aptitude usage works the best, I'd say. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
