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Re: how to shift from stable to testing



On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:17:15AM +0000, Silke Suck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> schrieb:
> > I would like to recommend aptitude instead of apt-get. It is also the=20
> > debian recommended tool.
> 
> I would _not_ recommend switching to aptitude on a system on which you
> have used apt-get until then, though. In most cases, this leads to
> problems (e.g. aptitude trying to remove your complete graphical
> environment). Not to unsolvable problems, but nevertheless - apt-get is
> absolutely fine, so there's really no need to face these problems at
> all.

According to the maintainer of aptitude, these problems should have been 
solved, even before the release of etch. Even if not, one can still run 
'aptitude keep-all' or use the "Cancel pending actions" from the 
"Actions" menu.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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