Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

[Colin Ingram <synergizedmusic@gmail.com>]

Greg Madden wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote:
>  
>
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:ratti@gesindel.de]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
> > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
> > > > apt-get is deprecated.
> > > > aptitude is the tool to be used.
> > > >
> > > > Bye,
> > > > Ratti
> > > >        
> > An aside:
> >
> > I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away.  Aptitude has *a
> > long* ways to go before it is very useful to me.  It reminds me of
> > dselect - clumsy and not very efficient.  I could have a package
> > found and installed using apt-get before I even began to guess which
> > subheading it is hiding under in aptitude.  To me aptitude is just an
> > unwanted step-child of dselect - which I didn't like either.
> >
> > That is just my 2 cents worth of course.  Everybody else in the
> > world is free to disagree.
> >    
>
> If you know the name of a package apt-get  has its merits, but then the
> 'search' function of dselect (forward-slash key) or aptitude works 
> quite well also, if you know the package name.
Aptitude has a very powerful search feature.  You can search both 
package name and description as well as over 10 other conditions (which 
they call terms).  I must say that I had to read the entire aptitude 
manual inorder to apprieciate what it could do. 

>  Of course I like and 
> use dselect :-) 
>