should we recommend apt-get or aptitude?
Hi,
the release-notes writing needs a decision about this question.
This is what somme DD's think about it:
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:17:30 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote (Bug#489132):
>On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>> Can't we recommend use of apt-get? It seems to work. (Never
>> tried aptitude, though.)
> We can but it doesn't look serious if we recommend something else
> for each release, I'd rather like that we stick to one front-end
> and make it good. We're far from that unfortunately, the apt* packages
> need some serious help as already pointed out by others.
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:53:12 +0200, Luk Claes wrote (Bug#489132):
>On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>> Can't we recommend use of apt-get? It seems to work. (Never
>> tried aptitude, though.)
> I guess many new users are used to synaptic or aptitude. Personaly I
> think we can recommend to use apt-get, but should test upgrades with
> aptitude and synaptic too and solve/describe possible issues with them.
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On 06/11/08 00:33, Steve Langasek wrote (Bug#503296):
>On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:37:56PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote:
>> Some bug reports have already reported apt-get works better than
>> aptitude. But it seems that it won't look serious to recommend the use of
>> a different package management front-end for each release. And as
>> aptitude was recommended in the 2 previous release, the ideas would be
>> (see bug #489132) :
>> - 1/ to stick at aptitude, find the possible issues and document these
>> issues in the release notes;
>> - 2/ improve aptitude.
>
> The reasons for prefering aptitude over apt-get no longer apply, and
> aptitude in etch and later is a *worse* tool than it was in earlier
> releases, because the maintainer has made the upgrade algorithm overly
> clever to the point where it will now propose upgrade solutions that
> directly conflict with what has been specified on the command line.
>
> We should cut our losses and recommend apt-get again for upgrades from etch,
> as apt is being maintained in a fashion much more appropriate for a core
> piece of Debian infrastructure.
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Giovanni
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