Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

["S. Fishpaste" <SDA@Deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600, sys49152@hushmail.com in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
> software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been
> finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so.  I am
> beginning to suspect that apt-get is becoming aged and neglected.
> Is there a newer/more modern package tool that has been getting
> more development attention that I should be using instead?

I use aptitude due to the fact that I received advice on this very
list to use it as the preferred package manager several years ago.
Supposedly it's better at resolving dependencies than apt-get. It
works similarly from the console/term as apt-get.