Re: dselect survey (Was: Bug#282283: RFH: dselect -- a user tool to manage Debian packages)
On 24-Nov-04, 20:12 (CST), "John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org> wrote:
> dselect has made too many mistakes on me. Perhaps if I did not mix and
> match using dselect with apt-get, it would have worked out alright, but
> go behind dselect's back and it gets very unhappy. aptitude suffers
> similarly. I stick primarily with apt-get.
The nice thing about aptitude is that it now provides a command line
interface that implements common uses of both apt-get and apt-cache,
usually with the obvious arguments. This avoids the inconsistency
problem that happens when mixing apt-get and dselect/aptitude.
Steve
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