On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 21:06 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:19:28PM -0400, Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> was heard to say: > > It was really hard for me to switch to using aptitude, but now since I > > have, I get annoyed when I use apt-get, although I use apt-get regularly > > on a certain machine. I'd still like to use aptitude, but the person I > > do the work for won't change. > > Greg, > > Why was it hard for you to switch to aptitude? Nothing technical. Training of the fingers and a misconception. Typing "aptitude vs apt-get" was the killer for me. It took me a good month to get there. Even now I still type "apt-get" once about every 10 times, accidentally. Early into Woody, I did not like the default actions of aptitude, until I realized I could fix most of the problems by just realizing the completeness of options aptitude has vs. apt-get. Not that I am saying apt-get is a bad tool, just that aptitude is a drop-in replacement and does everything apt-get does... except MORE, so much more that I am kicking myself for refusing to use it for so many years. I thank the "lot of you", causing me to force fix my fingers. It has saved me much work in the past while. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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