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Re: aptitude vs. apt-get



On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 04:49:46PM +0100, Matthias wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
PEBKAC, for the uninitiated... Problem exists between keyboard and chair.

:D

For myself, I never use aptitude through the curses interface. I almost exclusively use its command line interface, and even that is many times better than that of apt-get. For example, I can tell aptitude directly to purge a package, instead of remove --purge (apt-way). It's overall more intuitive to use. If I want a fully fledged user interface, I would use synaptic instead. I have never felt the urge to have a user interface for package management though.

If you like using aptitude through the CLI, have you given wajig a try? I tend to use it for all my command line work, then aptitude if I need to browse by category, etc. Its worth taking a look at if you haven't tried it yet.

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