Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6
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André Neves wrote:
>> The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get.
>
> Sorry, preferred by who?
By the debian developers. From
/usr/share/doc/aptitude/README
> What is this aptitude thing, anyway?
>
> aptitude is a featureful package manager for Debian GNU/Linux systems, based on
> the renowned apt package management infrastructure. aptitude provides the
> functionality of dselect and apt-get, as well as many additional features not
> found in either program.
IIRC, it's mainly the better algorithms to resolve dependencies and the
ability to distinguish between packages that are automatically installed
vs manually installed, that have been introduced in aptitude, but not in
apt-get.
Cheers,
Johannes
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