Re: KDE 3.2.3 backport confusing my woody.
On Saturday 30 October 2004 10:18 am, Matej Cepl wrote:
> There are two huge differences between dselect and aptitude:
> a) dselect is pain in the neck to use (I am sorry, if I offend
> anybody who likes it, but I have met so far just one person to claim
> so; I have met also one SM person -- there are strange people out
> there :-), whereas aptitude was made so that it is really usable,
> IMHO.
Okay.. dselect rocks, and I am not into SM? I guess aptitude, being a
newer release is where new users could start, imho
> b) AFAIK, dselect is just a front-end to apt-get and it has not
> intelligence in dealing with dependencies of its own. On the other
> hand aptitude has much more improved algorithms than apt-get has.
>
> Matej
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