Re: apt or aptitude on sarge
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:21:26PM +0100, michael wrote:
> I note that it seems that aptitude is recommended over apt for Sarge. I
> was wondering if it's as str forward as just using aptitude from now on?
> eg I do not have to rebuild anything the first time i use aptitude (ie
> it uses the same dpkg info as apt - but in that case why is aptitude
> recommended over and above apt?)
AFAIK It has a somewhat different dependency reolution engine, which seems
to be better at large dist-upgrades than apt in most cases.
Frank
> thanks
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> Michael Bane
> Atmospheric Physics Group
> University of Manchester
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