On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:34PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 +0000 (GMT), Thomas Adam
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get.
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork or
> > something). If a user installs using the new d-i, opts for manual
> > package configuration, is it impossible to avoid using aptitude?
>
> Why avoid it? According to Osamu Aoki in the Debian Reference Manual
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-apt-install,
> Aptitude is now the preferred command line APT application. I have become
> quite used to aptitude install, aptitude remove, aptitude purge, aptitude
> update, aptitude dist-upgrade, etc. Usually, its just a case of putting
> typing aptitude where you would have typed apt-get.
Now, wait just a second... Brian Nelson says no one is recommending
aptitude over apt-get for command-line use. :)
Thank you for finding the authoritative reference I knew was out there but
couldn't remember.
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