Marc Wilson wrote:
Who is this "we all?" I started using aptitude because a number of people on this list that I trusted said it was the way to go and I haven't been disappointed. I don't expect any dependency resolution program to be perfect. In the case of xorg I had to use apt-get install to install xserver-xorg and the transition to xorg gave me no problems which is pretty amazing!On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:42:49PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:Yes, i386. aptitude here doesn't think so. I'm trying to work around it.Yes, but we all know aptitude is crap,
It has never broken my box. apt-get (before I learned about apt-listbugs) broke my box once and I upgrade packages almost every day.with ideas about dependency resolution different from the known universe, so if you're going to use it, don't mix it with any other package management. It *will* break your box.
Paul