Re: Downside to Aptitude?
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
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> I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get
> for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the
> features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It
> seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well.
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> Are there any pitfalls when using Aptitude to manage a system? For
> example, running
I usually use aptitude, but I use apt-get build-dep, apt-get source, and
I'll use apt-get if I only want the bare minimum of a thing, usually
because something else wants it but I don't particularly intend to use
it.
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> aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
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> instead of
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> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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> Is Aptitude being pushed as the replacement for dselect, or perhaps as
> an eventual replacement for apt-get?
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> Thanks for any thoughts.
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