Franklin PIAT wrote:
> My rational is that some setup runs apt* updates automatically. If a
> user later use "aptitude install foo", it would install those updates
> too [...]
This is just not true.
# aptitude update
[...]
Fetched 5450kB in 5s (1079kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
There are now 3 updates [+3], 23 new [+23].
# aptitude install libcap-dev
[...]
The following packages have been kept back:
libpq5{a} tar wget
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcap-dev libcap1{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.4kB of archives. After unpacking 176kB will be used.
As you can see the 3 updated packages are _not_ being installed, but are
kept back. Only the requested package (and its deps) gets installed.
I personally use apt-get and aptitude completely interchangeably, while
mostly using aptitude. I almost always use aptitude interactively for
upgrades because it allows me to prune new recommends I don't want.
Cheers,
FJP
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