Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:25:02 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:03:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:13:23 -0500
> > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?  And has apt-get started keeping track of
> > 
> > The classic examples that arise periodically on the list are apt-get's
> > 'build-dep' and 'source' actions, which apparently have no obvious
> > aptitude versions.
> 
> this bothers me, since I mostly use aptitude. When I need a build-dep
> or source, I'm concerned that later aptitude may wipe something
> inadvertantly. Do you know if there are plans to implement these
> commands into aptitude? Or will apt-get always remain, so that its not
> a problem?

I really don't know; I have never built anything (except kernels and
modules with kernel-package) from Debian source packages.  Why not ask
Daniel directly?

> A

Celejar
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