On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:45:21AM -0500, Don Wright wrote: > >On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 01:24:01PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > >> You are still using "apt-get". With Debian Stretch and later I switched > >> my habit to using the shorter, newly written "apt" command. > > KatolaZ replied: > > >You'd be surpried in discovering that there are even people still > >using dselect. Newly-written does not always correlate positively with > >"better" :) > > > One should note 'apt', like most of the Debian repository, is available in > Devuan and appears to work as intended. It was even included in the Devuan > live image I used to install ASCII beta a while back. I haven't seen (or > searched for) reasons not to use it, would someone provide a reference to > that discussion? >
I guess nobody here has said that apt should not be used, or that it's worse or better than apt-get/apt-cache. The fact that apt's developers would like apt to become the default command-line interface in all deb-based systems does not automatically mean that everybody *must* use apt, either. As the fact that apt-get became available did not mean that dselect had to be discarded altogether. You know, it's always better to have *more* options as time goes on, rather than less. If you are "free to choose" among *one single option*, can you still call it a choice at all? :) HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
