Re: Source of Debian wisdom
On 19 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
>
> I haven't tried aptitude for some time, and apparently the problem I
> had with it (where it wanted to remove a lot of stuff) has been fixed.
> I think that, even before that fix, it would work reasonably (i.e., no
> surprises) as long as it was used exclusively. I normally use apt-get,
> and tried aptitude after seeing that it was going to be the default,
> but have since shied away from it.
>
[snip]
I ditched aptitude a couple of years ago in favour of wajig. I'm willing
to believe that most or even all of the problems I had with aptitude
were my own fault, but wajig is brilliant IMO and I don't find a need
for anything else.
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