Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
Michael Martinell schrieb:
>
>>>-----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.
apt-get is not "deprecated" and will not go away AFAIK. The OP was
referring to the officially recommended way to upgrade between
distributions; see the sarge release notes on upgrading.
But I would recommend you to give aptitude another chance. It took me a
while to get used to it, but now I wouldn't want to miss it again.
cheers,
Guido
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