Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Mon, 02 Jun: > > First, stop working with apt-get. Only work with aptitude. > > That's what I always do - just because aptitude is smart enough to > mark "automatically installed packages" to be removed when no longer > required, but also because it indeed gives an impression of being more > intelligent than plain apt-get.
I have no idea where that comes from. "apt-get autoremove" takes care of packages that are no longer dependent upon (or is that only in sid?). I find aptitude slower to load than even YUM in fully interactive mode, I have no idea why, but nore than once I gave up on it after it takes 4-5 minutes to load on my sid, including after it finishes installing/upgrading packages. I just revert to apt-get and it has very rarely failed me. then again, I could be missing something. never found out why or when aptitude started loading this slow. > > distribution versions), it is actually not recommended to use apt-get > > dist-upgrade. For that, either "apt-get dselect-upgrade" is recommended, or > > use dselect (ouch) or aptitude in order to do the actual upgrade. Aptitude > > is recommended by me, as it shows you what will break prior to taking any > > action. so does apt-get. I always thought apt-get and aptitude use the exact same backend, only one featured a UI. again, I may have missed something. -- The Scorpion King Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
