Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:36 am, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my
> maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no
> sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything really simple.
> Though, from what I understand, I'm more likely to get odd, unbelieving,
> cross-eyed glances than "Me too's!" for that. :)

I actually used to use dselect for everything, but have recently switched over 
to aptitude after forcing myself to use it for a while to see how it worked.  
I don't think I'll go back now as I have found out to everything I could do 
in dselect and more with aptitude.

The only thing that I use apt-get for is for situations at the moment.  With 
only half of KDE3.1 in sid, aptititude would remove kmail etc if I let it, so 
if a really need to install the odd single package I use apt-get.  Normally I 
wouldn't though.

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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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