Re: apt-get vs Aptitude
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> What I ment here was that I can do
> 'apt-cache policy samba'
> but I can't do:
> 'aptitude policy samba'
You can't go apt-get policy samba; either. There are some things for
which tools besides aptitude are the right thing to use, and showing
the policy is one of them. [I don't know if aptitude will ever add a
feature to show this itself, but it doesn't really need to.]
Don Armstrong
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that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
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