On Monday 02 April 2012 22:15:08 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > As I understand it the latest recommendation is to use apt-get from > command line and aptitude interactively.
Ah! Do you not use aptitude at the command line? Is that what you are saying? I never use it any other way. I tend to forget that it has an ncurses mode. Which would explain why I thought that both apt and aptitude can be used for day to day operations. In fact, I am sure that I saw that - but not that it was the most recent utterance from on high, and from what you say, it wasn't. Lisi > As it happens I'm doing just that: > - on stable machines I usually just install or purge one or the other > package and apply security updates. apt-get is a bit faster for such > simple operations > - on the sid install on my laptop I always have aptitude running because > I upgrade very often, but also lookup (new) packages, etc. and > aptitude's interactive mode is *very* useful when dealing with sid > > Hope this explains, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
