Re: package management begins to annoy me

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Ignore Ron.

Bah humbug.  You're just upset because I'm right...

>              Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager 
> since Etch was released.  It has better dependency resolution, is more user-
> friendly, and is a bit more tunable.
>
> That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager.  In that case 
> I think apt-get or libapt are better choices.

Then aptitude should remove the CLI interface and stop pretending to 
be useful from bash.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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