On 14 Dec 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using > > aptitude. > > I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new stuff. After > > a > > graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll have to > > delete > > some of the old stuff. Bah. > > A garbage collection shortcut for your memory: All of the old reasons > to use aptitude instead of apt-get for command-line package installation > no longer apply; those improvements have been rolled back into apt-get. > > --
I also prefer apt-get, via the frontend wajig. I did use aptitude a long time ago but gave up because it kept removing all sorts of things it shouldn't. No doubt it is much better now but I don't see the need to learn a lot of complicated stuff to replace what is already working well for me. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
