On 11/06/11 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi >> about the merits of vi :-) > > I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;)
It wasn't meant to be :-) I am completely ignorant of aptitude so I figured, in deference to those that aren't, I'd solicit their imput (hell, I might even learn something). Thanks. > aptitude can do almost everything apt-get/apt-cache can do, but: > > + has very powerful search patterns > + has an interactive mode (text or GUI), which I find very useful > especially for complicated upgrades (not rare with Debian unstable), but > also for other tasks > - the search is slower > - sometimes the first suggested course of action is sub-optimal, more > often in interactive mode > - aptitude has a few annoying bugs (like loosing 'automatically > installed' or 'hold' state in some cases) > > I like combining them to get the best of both. This was not recommended > a few releases ago, but currently the only issue I know of is that they > store information on held packages differently. All other databases > (available packages, automatically installed, ...) are shared. > > Regards, > Andrei Cheers -- Tuttle? His name's Buttle. There must be some mistake. Mistake? [Chuckles] We don't make mistakes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
