Re: Why apt-get is not a proper software search engine
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> I'm still using apt-get rather than aptitude because apt-get seems subtly
> but noticably faster. But I *am* using debfoster, which lets you get at
> some similar information. Maybe popularity-contest should pay attention
> to that as well?
Yeah, aptitude (seems to have) some annoying startup delays (what's with
that "loading cache"? It takes forever)... but aptitude is so vastly
superior that I use it anyway.
At a minimum, even if you never use the nice GUI, the automatic tracking
of packages that can be deleted automatically when nobody depends on
them is worth it. It seems like this functionality really ought to be
in the libraries, not aptitude.
-Miles
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