Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 02 apr 12, 17:32:44, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 02 April 2012 10:48:24 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > I'd suggest this instead: > > > > > > Note that apt-get now installs recommended packages by default > > > and is, for its robustness, the preferred program for package > > > management from console, to perform system installation, and major > > > system upgrades to releases as of Squeeze. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > That isn't how I had understood things - though I feel that you are > > more likely to be right on this than I am. As I had understood it, > > we have gone from aptitude being recommended for everything, to > > apt-get being recommended for major upgrades and the two of them > > being equal for day to day use at the command line. > > As I understand it the latest recommendation is to use apt-get from > command line and aptitude interactively. > > 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
I tend to use apt-get these days, unless the solution it offers me for some conflict resolution it offers me it not suitable for my taste. Then I try aptitude. I use aptitude interactively from time to time to clean up stuff. But I find that aptitude sometimes is quite confused and wants to install packages again that I removed with apt-get. Meanwhile I usually do a aptitude keep-all prior to starting it interactively. I thought aptitude and apt-get would share the same state, but it seems that still holds not true for everything. Another thing is aptitude hold/unhold which apt-get did not use last time I tried. The other way around via dpkg --set-selections seems to work in apt-get and aptitude tough. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204042017.09626.mar...@lichtvoll.de
