On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:37:28PM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-03-31 20:07 keltezéssel, Brad Rogers írta: > > For my set of circumstances, it is. However, I neglected to take proper > > note of yours. You're using apt-get (etc.) and I tend to use Synaptic. > > Clearly, behaviour is different in each case. > > > > Mea Culpa. > > > > With the meta-package installed on my system, Synaptic will pull in and > > install the latest kernel, and run grub-config to update the boot > > loader. This result in making the new kernel the default, and demoting > > an other kernel(s) installed. Once I'm happy that the upgraded kernel > > works as required, I can delete the old kernel(s), if I wish. I usually > > keep one older kernel available, 'just in case'. > > I have some machines which I administer remotely and some of them don't > have GUI at all. Synaptic is not an option for me. Moreover, apt-get is > faster :)
And I use aptitude from a terminal. Apt-get is useful when a lot of packages need to be installed, otherwise aptitude has some features that I'm more used to like 'safe-upgrade' and seems to work dependencies better although slower. At one time it was the go to, but since I've gathered that apt-get has been improved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140331225159.GC27590@Jessie
