Bruce Sass <bsass@edmc.net> writes: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: >>> Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that >>> aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary >>> results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it here. >> >> In my experience, aptitude has its own set of problems. Alas, nothing is >> perfect. > > Don't forget about dselect. If the APT tools are not giving you enough > control then maybe dselect will, especially if you don't use the apt > method for fetching packages. If aptitude can't do it right, dselect surely won't do the right thing...
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