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Re: Upgrading KDE and it's dependencies



El Jueves, 7 de Julio de 2005 17:37, Bob Proulx escribió:
> Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> > 1. aptitude
>
> Unfortunately that brings up an interactive GUI.  I have far too many
> machines to interactively babysit each and every one of them
> uniquely.  It is just not practical.

Yes, I understand that using the GUI requires interaction, and this is against 
automation, but I still think that the GUI is only required in complicated 
upgrades, because it has the benefit of working in two steps: 1) marking 
actions and 2) seeing the effect of those individually, and correcting them 
if needed before following.

> What are different ways to use aptitude which would be bad?  What is
> an incorrect way to use aptitude?  I can't really think of any.  So
> this statement leaves me not knowing what is being discussed.  To be
> clear I am talking about these commands.  Are any of these incorrect
> use of aptitude?  If so why?

I was thinking more in mixing the use of aptitude, and apt-get. I mean, 
aptitude stores some extra information in /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates, that 
AFAIK is ignored by apt-get.

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