Re: debfoster vs aptitude (was: Re: Stripping KDE)
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:44:11PM +0100, Shot wrote:
> Brian Brazil:
> > Try aptitude. It keep track of packages
> > that are manually/automatically installed.
>
> True. But I remember aptitude had this all-or-nothing feeling to it; if
> you don't use aptitude from the beginning, this functionality is rather
> limited, and you're commiting yourself to installing via aptitude in the
> future - you can't quickly `apt-get install` something with aptitude
> keeping track. (Hm, now as I think of it, you should be able to
> `aptitude install` the same thing.)
Quite true. Anything apt-get pulls in is listed as manual. Hence I use
'aptitude install' unless I know a package won't pull in anything else
with it.
The UI is better than the CLI - you can see the conflicts which can
identify alternative packages. And the full depends on/is depended on
relationships. (where depends is also recommends and suggests).
> Please correct me if I'm wrong on the above; I repeat, it's just
> a feeling, I haven't used aptitude more than a couple of times.
A rather correct feeling (in my experiance anyway).
> > Alternativley, one you get rid of kde-baselibs(?)
> > its gaurenteed nothing of KDE is left...
>
> kdelibs4, I believe. But debfoster (and aptitude, when used
> consistently) are much more universal and seem clearer to me.
To each his own.
Brian
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