subtle difference between package managers (was: Re: xorg in sid)
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
>
> >with all three of them at the same time (apt, aptitude, and synaptic).
> >That's what I am doing now. I started off with apt-get, then I got to
> >know aptitude, which adds a few nice tricks, and finally went with
> >synaptic because I tried it and like it. I sometimes switch between the
> >three depending on what I want to do and how I want to do it. Never had
> >my box break !
>
> Switching between apt-get and aptitude makes it easier to get yourself
> into trouble if you don't really understand what the programs are doing
> and what their (subtle) differences are.
Now I know that there are subtle difference, and that I should understand
them. Are they more than that aptitude remembers which packages were
explicitly requested? Are they documented somewhere?
-- hendrik
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