Re: apt-get deprecated?

[Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx>]

On Saturday 30 April 2005 08:52, Jules Dubois wrote:
> In one case, I must type
>
>   apt-get install package
>
> In the other case, I may type
>
>   aptitude install package
>
> Sure, I save one keystroke but there's no hyphen in aptitude.  I think it
> about evens out.

There is more difference between the two than that.  I'm not quite sure why, 
but aptitude will often want to uninstall MANY packages, for things like a 
simple package install, that apt-get will happily do without bother.  
Personally, I just don't trust aptitude any more.  Not that I'm blaming 
aptitude: I may simply not understand it, but aptitude definitely isn't a 
drop-in, more modern version of apt-get.

-- 
Lee.