Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?
Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> writes:
> This is the primary benefit I keep hearing about for aptitude over apt-get.
> I just don't see it as particularly valuable. Let's talk use cases:
Lots of people don't want tons of random crappy libraries clogging up
their system just because they were needed 3 years ago by some pointless
waste of time package they installed by mistake,
Maybe you don't care, and have gobs of disk space to burn, but _lots of
people do care_, and aptitude does an elegant and painless job of
satisfying this desire (unlike deborphan; I used it for a long time
before aptitude was usable, and frankly, deborphan is an unreliable and
cranky hack).
Besides that (excellent) functionality, aptitude is just generally an
great interface to debian's package system -- more consistent,
functional, and user-friendly than the alternatives, both in full-screen
mode and command-line mode. Just about the only real complaint I've
ever had about it is that it's slow to start up on old systems.
If aptitude has a bug that annoys you, send a bug report.
-Miles
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