Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Celejar wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:14:18 -0600
> Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 28, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> > I would disagree.  Aptitude supports command-line operation as well  
> > as
> > interactive.
>
> You do realize that Daniel is both the author and maintainer of
> aptitude :) ?

Nope.

I guess he forgot that you can drive aptitude just fine from the  
command line?  ;-)

> [Thanks, Daniel, for your Debian, aptitude and d-u work!]

Yep.  Good job.  Aptitude walks the dog, compared to apt-get.

I'm an old dselect guy who "migrated" to aptitude.

It's good stuff.

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Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com