On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:25:15PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote: > > Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved > > people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its > > curses interface. I was present also in interactive mode. > Are you saying I should NOT use aptitude as a replacement for > apt-get, like this: "aptitude install new-package" ? > > I've been using aptitude like this all the time ever since I installed etch > with no problems whatsoever. > > What's the problem of doing so and not using it's user interface? There was indeed a bug in aptitude BEFORE release of etch, where it would consider packages installed by apt-get as automatically installed, instead of manually. This was fixed a long ago. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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