Re: dselect survey (Was: Bug#282283: RFH: dselect -- a user tool to manage Debian packages)

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque@debian.org>]

Steve Greenland wrote:
> 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.

Yes! This is why I have been telling my fellow LUG members to use
aptitude install <package> instead of apt-get install <package>. This
way, aptitude can also tell when a package installed to satisfy
dependencies is no longer required, and can be safely removed.

This can only be a good thing for end-users.

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