On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge. Preferred by whom, for what reason? I've always been much happier with apt-get when I want precision, aptitude when I want to browse. When I upgraded from etch to lenny, apt-get gave me useful feedback that helped me fix things; aptitude wanted to mark my entire system for purge, for no specified reason...