Re: package management begins to annoy me
On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest
of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and
dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more
and more to annoy me, for several reasons. Maybe, and I hope so, this
is only because i don't know apt-get and aptitude well enough.
[snip]
2. Every 1-2 months or so I do a
aptitude update && aptitude -R safe-upgrade
but more and more often I see aptitude wanting to bloat my
installation of currently roughly 2 GB by another 400 or 500 MB by
installing hundreds of new packages. My suspect is that
increasingly many packages have broken dependencies and want to
pull in quite a lot of other packages which they really shouldn't
depend on.
[snip]
So, am I doing something completely wrong here?
Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended
us to use: apt-get.
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