RE: aptitude vs. apt-get
Yeah, I just tried to run it, and it wants to remove a whole host of
packages... including several it considers unused, but that are
programs. (i.e. it wants to yank xmms)
That's a little strange no? Or does that mean there's some version of
XMMS lying around that can be yanked?
-----Original Message-----
From: nori heikkinen [mailto:nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:10 PM
To: Ron Johnson
Cc: Debian-User
Subject: Re: aptitude vs. apt-get
on Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:41:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson insinuated:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:11 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:03, Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
> >
> > > But I've been using apt-get & dselect in combination for some time
> > > now, will switching to aptitude cause me problems? Will using
> > > aptitude and apt-get interchangeably cause me problems?
> >
> > I started using aptitude as an exact command-line replacement for
> > apt-get about a year ago and have never had a single problem.
>
> Some of us dislike aptitude because it insists on removing packages
> for seemingly random reasons.
... or installing huge numbers of packages on a whim, or that certain
packagses conflict when they don't using apt-get, or the unnerving:
Apt errors
W: Can't open Aptitude extended state file
[ Ok ]
message that i get wheneven opening apt. i keep trying to like it, and
it works great for install those sequences of dependencies that apt-get
just won't resolve all at once, but for some things, it's completely
inadequate -- at least, as far as i've found.
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