Re: Why does aptitude do this?

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> Sunday, 19 February 2006 13:29, Rob Blomquist wrote:

> > Consequently, I am now staying away from that GUI and am running it
> > from the CL.
>
> I personally find that aptitude's GUI is incomprehensible,

Did it acquire a GUI?  My Sarge version only seems to have a curses interface.

 but that it
> is far superior to apt-get on the command-line,

They are (or at least should be) complementary, not competing tools.

 partly because it does
> remove unused cruft (but also because the resolver is better).

That's an apt back-end issue that is common to all package managers, so it 
(ideally) should drive the selection of a package manager.