Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > 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.
I use some other functions of aptitude quite often meanwhile aptitude purge ~c and some searches. While for simple searches I prefer apt-cache search since it *and's* words instead of *or'ing* them. (And now I am not sure whether apostroph is expected here or not. I am no native english speaker or writer.) Ciao, -- 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/201204042019.11661.mar...@lichtvoll.de
