Hello again! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:18:12PM +0200, Jesús Roncero Franco wrote: > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:56, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Please see for example the Release Note for Woody at > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading#s-dse > >lectupgrade and following. > > > > For easy and well-defined tasks apt-get is just fine, but otherwise > > I'd rely on some »smarter« tool. > > Ok, I'd remake my question. If today's preferred method of installing and > upgrading software in debian is apt-get, and it has some problems, why is > this the first time I heard of it? I mean, from a user perspective, one that > reads many debian related mailing lists, apt-get is the most recommended > tool, not aptitude. I'd guess it's because of a) apt-get is easily explainable, i.e. telling someone to "apt-get install <package>" instead of telling to start aptitude / dselect / synaptic / kpackage / $whatever, search for the package and select it for installation is way easier (yes, I know, at least aptitude and dselect can be controlled from the command line). b) it's pretty straightfoward, unlike for example dselect. c) it's there on _every single system_. But that's only guesswork... Well, after all as seen in the Release Notes apt-get isn't quite recommended for this particular major release upgrade. *shrugs* Cheers, Flo
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