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Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?



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On 12/02/06 06:13, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> * Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> [061202 04:52]:
[snip]
> Maybe I'll just crawl back under a rock and continue using apt-get.

Use what works and doesn't go weird on you.  Stick with apt-get.

> I thought that aptitude combined the functionality of apt-get and 
> apt-cache commands, but aptitude source <package> didn't work, and
> isn't even mentioned in the man page.  Hmm...

You might like wajig; I think it's handy.  It's a do-almost-
everything shell, which is also a wrapper around apt-get and apt-cache.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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