On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
>Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
>> You cannot break anything
>>by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
>>neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
>>a tool which integrates the functionality of apt-get, apt-cache, etc.
>>into one utility with an optional ncurses-GUI and a broader repertoire
>>for the resolution of dependency problems.
>
>Hm, I tried aptitude and found that you won't know what's going on
>anymore and that it tries to do things to packages you won't want it to
>do and that it's impossible to prevent that and very difficult, if not
>impossible, to make it install the packages you want. When using it
>after a fresh install, it appears to leave you with a totally broken
>system.
>
>In other words: Aptitude just utterly sucked, so I went back to dselect.
This is exactly what I thought (althogh I never got along with dselect
either) so I always went back to apt-get+debfoster. Recently debfoster
was deprecated and I was more or less forced to take a look at aptitude.
So far my experience is that it IS good, though it takes a little while
to get used to it and figure out the UI. After getting some help from
this very list I'm now using aptitude in a manner very similar to how I
previously used apt-get+debfoster. I wrote some stuff down so that I
would remember[1].
/M
1. http://therning.org/magnus/archives/132
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