Re: keep users alert to packages deleted from debian
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:44:48AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:28:44PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > I would venture to say that only 'apt-get source' is useful. 'apt-get
> > install' doesn't offer anything 'aptitude install' offers. In fact, if
> > you use aptitude, you should never use 'apt-get install' since you lose
> > the benefits of aptitude tracking automatic dependencies.
> >
> > The only times I've used 'apt-get install' in the past 1.5 years or so
> > are on newly installed systems, and then it's only to do 'apt-get
> > install aptitude'. ;)
>
> Very good point. I expanded aptitude section and pointed out this very
> important fact.
>
> Once you start using <prgn>aptitude</prgn>, it is depreciated to use
That should be "deprecated". While "depreciated" is a common
misspelling, that word actually means "reduced in value", such as the
way a three-year-old car is worth less than a new one.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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