On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 22:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an > > interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a > > tool will make it much easier to keep your package system in stable > > state. > > Why does everybody keep saying this when it's false? Aptitude and > apt-get are getting thier information from the same place and making > the same decisions. Both tell you quite specifically what is going on > before it asks you to commit to it. Nobody has yet demonstrated on > the list anything that you can do in aptitude easier or faster than > you can with some combination of apt-file, apt-cache and apt-get. > > "But aptitude's a front end to apt!" No, apt is a front end to dpkg, > and aptitude is a replacement to dselect when using apt as a source.
Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything really simple. Though, from what I understand, I'm more likely to get odd, unbelieving, cross-eyed glances than "Me too's!" for that. :) But for just installing or finding a single package, I really don't see the point in starting up any frontend when I can just do "apt-cache search searchstring" & "apt-get install package". On a completely unrelated note, Baloo, I don't know if this is your doing or Evolution's, but your signature was automatically taken out when I hit reply. The only thing that was shown was the message. If it was your doing, how do you do it? :) -Alex
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