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Re: apt-get deprecated?



On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:25:16PM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:11:43AM -0700, mm wrote:
> >Is there any compelling reason to use `apt-get' over `aptitude', given
> >the latter's more robust feature set (installation tracking, for
> >example)?
> >
> >I've been using aptitude exclusively for about a year for installing
> >packages, yet still see a lot of new documentation with directives to
> >install/upgrade with apt-get.
> 
> There's no real need to use apt-get over aptitude. They use the same
> package lists and underlying architecture.

I remember readding something that they each use their own database.
So that mixing the two methods was not a good idea.

Or was that dselect? Can someone confirm or deny? 

-- 
Chris.
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