Brian Nelson wrote: > What if you want to honor a package's "Recommends" field with apt-get? > That'll take some extra effort that isn't necessary with aptitude. Or > what if you want to automatically remove the dependencies a package > pulled in when you delete that package? Pretty tricky to do with > apt-get. Also, apt-get cannot provide user interaction to resolve a > tricky conflict and instead will just give up, leaving the user confused > as to what went wrong. A property aptitude unfortunatly shares more or less. > Aptitude can do some pretty neat tricks too. For example, you can > duplicate the functionality of deborphan (without having to periodically > re-run it a la deborphan) by simply running aptitude, opening "Installed > Packages", moving the cursor down to "libs", and typing 'M' as in > shift-m. Now that is a neat trick I never thought of! Thanks. > I don't buy the claims that aptitude is more intuitive or user-friendly > than dselect, but it's certainly a powerful tool in its own right. It wins on user-friendlyness since it uses fairly standard controls. And has pull-down menus so you can learn it as you go. It's not exactly easy to learn though. -- see shy jo
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