Re: aptitude vs synaptic

[Antti Tolamo <debian@tola.org>]

Miguel Filho wrote:

I`ll give you a help with aptitude, it's very great!
  

One thing dselect has and others do not have (or, again, I've not found
where), is the listing of "suggested" packages. It's not clear to me if the
packages automatically selected as dependencies by aptitude and synaptic
are only the strict dependencies, or include the "recommended" ones, or
include also the "suggested" ones. 
    

Go to Options->Dependency handling, then take a look here, it will show
you what you want.

Synaptic and aptitude are very great, but I really don't enjoy dselect.
  

I'd like aptitude otherwise, but for me atleast sometimes seems to
like to choose things for me, I've not picked up myself. And I've been
many times been left wondering are all chosen packages
really because depencies. Few times I've noticed they aren't,
but they could  been case of an user error.
Sometimes when I choose enough packages, it seems also
to select *all* visible packages when I press 'g'. Few times
i've been alarmed by it, just to notice it's either a bug  in
the view or an odd feature in it that pops up occasianally.

I atleast mix all of apt and related, depending what I need to do.
None of them I think is good at everything.

I think aptitude is pretty good way it is designed, but
what I've used it(about week) I don't trust it yet.

Antti