Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimp@rdslink.ro>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:43:37 +0100
Marc PERRUDIN <debianNOSPAM@mp342.org> wrote:

> >Also there are things that apt can do aptitude can't.  (Seen in the apt-build 
> >script.)
> >  
> >
> Yes, aptitude doesn't have the 'source' command so you can't download
> source package with aptitude.

amp77@omnibook:~$ apt-get -h
[snip]
...
[snip]
                       This APT has Super Cow Powers.

amp77@omnibook:~$ aptitude -h
[snip]
...
[snip]
                  This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.


I'd want to keep the Super Cow Powers around ;) I remember when doing a dist-upgrade from sarge to sid (which also involved changing from Xfree86 to Xorg) i couldn't sort out the dependencies with aptitude.  It worked with apt-get though...

Andrei

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