On Thu, 10 May 2018 18:02:38 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <20180510170238.gq26...@katolaz.homeunix.net>:
> 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? :) ..me, I prefer aptitude, "apt-get install aptitude ;aptitude " and go play around in the menus etc, if you don't like it, 8o) "apt-get purge aptitude" and it's gone. :o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
