Re: smart package manager

[Stephen <stephen.d.allen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:20:43PM -0600 or thereabouts, Joseph Smidt wrote:
> There is talk about the smart package manager.  It claims it will handle
> package managing better than APT.  Is this true or propaganda?  If it is
> true, will there be a future switch from APT to this SMART?  Could it be a
> potential etch +1 goal?  Just wondering.

Are you referring to Aptitude ? It's available either in a curses
display (I think it's curses) or from the command line.

I consider it better than apt-get, but that's _my_ opinion.

If you search Google with the query 'apt-get vs aptitude' you'll get
some opinions, along with educated opinions. I like this one:

	"Aptitude is said to deal with dependencies better than apt-get.
	For example, say you install a package which automatically
	installs some library packages because it depends on them. When
	you remove this package with apt-get, it won't remove the
	libraries this package installed, although they aren't used
	anymore.
	
	When you install that package with aptitude and remove it with
	aptitude, aptitude 'detects' that those library packages aren't
	used anymore and will therefore automatically remove them."

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Regards
Stephen
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