Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:ratti@gesindel.de]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
> > >
> > >
> > > AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
> > > apt-get is deprecated.
> > > aptitude is the tool to be used.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > > Ratti
>
> An aside:
>
> I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitude has *a
> long* ways to go before it is very useful to me. It reminds me of
> dselect - clumsy and not very efficient. I could have a package
> found and installed using apt-get before I even began to guess which
> subheading it is hiding under in aptitude. To me aptitude is just an
> unwanted step-child of dselect - which I didn't like either.
>
> That is just my 2 cents worth of course. Everybody else in the
> world is free to disagree.
If you know the name of a package apt-get has its merits, but then the
'search' function of dselect (forward-slash key) or aptitude works
quite well also, if you know the package name. Of course I like and
use dselect :-)
--
Greg Madden
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