Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:01:53AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:35:02PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > aptitude shouldn't wipe out packages installed with apt-get, period
> > > full stop.
> >
> > you know, that wasn't fair of me. I was once concerned about that
> > problem, but have subsequently learned that it really doesn't
> > happen. So i apologise if that came across wrong.
>
> No, I just come down hard on this meme because it seems to have taken
> on a life of its own and I'd like to squash it before it grows up into a
> full-blown urban legend.
That sounds good, but is it different now than it used to be? I haven't
tried it lately, but it used to "seem" to want to remove lots of things.
I'm aware of the workarounds (keep-all or whatever), have followed most
of the threads (even instigated some...), but am still a command-line
apt-get user waiting for a reason to change. Two problems I have with
aptitude are the lack of "source" functionality and my inability to spell
it as easily as apt-get. ;-)
Ken
--
Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu
Reply to: