On Monday 19 December 2016 18:58:43 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:38:51 +0100 > > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > > On 2016-12-16 18:06:26 +0000, Joe wrote: > > > Do you have X running? > > > > Not always. > > > > > I use Synaptic in these situations, where it is easy to try packages > > > to see what can be upgraded without removals I'm not willing to > > > accept. > > > > But that's not automatic (aptitude can also do that, and one can > > undo a choice if it yields removals). > > Difficult to see how it could be automated, as sometimes it's a value > judgement as to whether to temporarily sacrifice application x in order > to upgrade y immediately, or whether to wait a while. Occasionally, a > package is removed permanently, and there's no obvious way of > differentiating such a removal from a temporary dependency issue > without resorting to a search engine. > > And I know that aptitude can do all kinds of amazing things in > interactive mode, but I have some kind of mental block about it. I've > tried learning it two or three times, and it seems to be just about as > counter-intuitive to operate as anything possibly can be. I have > nothing against curses programs, I use mc in preference to other file > managers for admin work on my workstation, which does run X at all > times. I just don't get on with aptitude.
aptitude can do a lot on the cli. I don't get on with n-curses programs. That's not to say that you personally would like it any better, of course, but one doesn't have to use n-curses to use aptitude. Lisi
