Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?
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On 09/21/07 10:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 09/21/07 00:43, Miles Bader wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>>>> The archives are replete with very valid reasons why people don't
>>>> trust aptitude.
>>> Not really. A lot of vague rumors flying about though.
>> Vague rumors to you, first-hand experience to me.
>
> I know you, and many others, have had trouble with aptitude, but I
> feel its important to point out that aptitude does what one tells it
> too. Now, one may be unintentionally telling it to do something one
> doesn't want, but that is another issue.
"# aptitude upgrade" doesn't mean "remove GNOME, perl and everything
they depend on".
> Aptitude appears, to me, to
> have much more sophisticated behavior than apt-get,
Sophisticated, yes.
Excessively clever, no.
> and that behavior
> may appear cryptic if not downright intentionally destructive but that behavior
> *is* predictable, knowable and can be altered to fit the
> circumstance. It's, more often than not, I think, a matter of learning
> a different tool and understanding what it does.
>
> Thankfully, we have choice in the matter and can use the
> package-manager of choice. :)
This is true.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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