Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:13:23AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> was heard to say:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:06:59 -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> said:
>
> > I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line tool,
> > whereas aptitude is an interactive tool that can be driven from the
> > command-line.
>
> Are there still command line usages of apt-get that are not
> exactly the same in aptitude?
Identical behavior to apt-get has never been a goal for me, so the
answer is almost certainly "yes". (not that I gratuitously break
apt-get compatibility; it's just not something I track one way or the
other unless I get bug reports)
> And has apt-get started keeping track of
> automatically installed packages, so cruft removal is not an issue with
> apt-get, as it has been in the past?
Yes, in sid.
Daniel
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