Re: aptitude vs. apt-get
On Thursday 03 February 2005 13:03, Rob Brenart (TT)
<Rob.Brenart@tradingtechnologies.com>
(<[🔎] 8F544985CD5FE24897B348C98832060222B720@chiex01.int.tt.local>) wrote:
> aptitude vs. apt-get
To be or not to be; that is the question.
> But I've been using apt-get & dselect in combination for some time now,
> will switching to aptitude cause me problems?
No. I used both apt-get and Synaptic before switching to aptitude.
> Will using aptitude and apt-get interchangeably cause me problems?
Aptitude tracks automatically installed packages and apt-get doesn't, so
when you use them both, aptitude doesn't know about packages apt-get
installed automatically. This, by itself, is enough to make me stay with
aptitude; would it be a problem for you?
> Or are they really just different interfaces to the same system and I'll
> be ok?
Sort of but not exactly:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2004-04/3181.html
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