Jeff Soules wrote:
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...
For whatever it's worth, I haven't used apt-get for years (and have never been dissatisfied with aptitude). I very rarely use aptitude interactively though (mostly I use it as a drop-in replacement on the command-line for the apt-get commands I used to use).
My memory is that the advice I followed several years ago (to switch from apt-get to aptitude) was due to a slightly better dependency-processing algorithm, but it's possible I've misremembered that detail.
~c